Elderly man, about to retire, buys a piece of land in the far north woods. Meets an avatar of a space ship, recruits a lot of people, builds three "outposts" in space. I can't remember the name of the story, nor the author. Any help is appreciated.
Elderly man, about to retire, buys a piece of land in the far north woods. Meets an avatar of a space ship, recruits a lot of people, builds three "outposts" in space. I can't remember the name of the story, nor the author. Any help is appreciated.
I don't think I've read this one but it sounds interesting! I'll keep an eye out here for the story :)
Are you sure he's an elderly man, and not just an older man? Some of what you mention matches part of a story i read several years ago and it may or may not be the one you want.
https://storiesonline.net/s/41392/tandra
edit to fix link
still, it's a good story in it's own right.
EB, if you want to use the advanced search results, right-click & copy link location of one of the column sort links rather than copy the address bar, as these links have the search parameters in them. An alternative would be to hit one of the column sort links first then copy the address bar -- if a sort is not followed, you get an empty search (matches everything) as above.
I answered from my memory of when I read the story some years ago, which is where about 90% of the answers to these questions come from.
This cut and paste of the link was an error I'll fix.
While it sounds like Blazing Star is what you were looking for, Tandra by John Wales has some of these elements.