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Conrad Stargard is the protagonist and title character in a series of time travel novels written by the Polish American writer Leo Frankowski. In them, a Polish engineer named Conrad Schwartz is sent back in time to the 13th century where he has to establish himself and cope with various crises including the eventual Mongol invasion of Poland in 1240. The character of Conrad has at times been described as a Mary Sue, and some aspects of the novels can be looked at as authorial wish-fulfillment. In response to this criticism in an early draft of the first book, Frankowski modified the character to have the opposite traits as himself, such as Conrad's socialism and devout Catholicism.〔(Discussion of the book by the Author )〕 == The books == The series originally consisted of four books, with a fifth released shortly after to wrap up loose ends: * ''The Cross-Time Engineer'' * ''The High-Tech Knight'' * ''The Radiant Warrior'' * ''The Flying Warlord'' * ''Lord Conrad's Lady'' All of the original books were originally published by Del Rey Books, and released by Baen Books in later runs. In late 2005, Frankowski self-published ''Lord Conrad's Crusade'' after a dispute with Baen. The final book in the series, ''Conrad's Last Campaign'', was published in 2014 - eight years after the author's death. Frankowski also wrote two books set in the same universe as the original series but not featuring the main character Conrad: * ''Conrad's Quest For Rubber'' - A story about group of soldiers known as the "Explorer Corps" and their mission to the Americas. * ''Conrad's Time Machine'' - A novel about Conrad's cousin's, and his associates, invention of the time machine that stranded Conrad the 13th century. The Conrad Stargard books belong to the subgenre started by Mark Twain's classic ''A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court'', in which a modern person goes back in time and anachronistically introduces various modern technical innovations and social institutions centuries sooner than happened in our history. The Stargard books differ significantly from Twain's concept in having a diametrically opposite role for the Catholic Church. The staunchly Freethinking Twain assigned to the Medieval Church the role of strongly opposing his protagonist's innovations and doing all in its power to undo them; on the contrary Frankowski - of a Polish Catholic background - provided his own time traveler from the very moment of arrival in the past with a friendly and sympathetic clergyman, who steadily rises in the Church hierarchy and ensures that the Church adopt a benevolently neutral attitude to Conrad's various enterprises, considerably helping their success. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Conrad Stargard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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