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The Excalibur Alternative is a 2002 science fiction work by David Weber, expanding on his earlier short story Sir George and the Dragon, and shares a universe with David Drake's Ranks of Bronze.
14th century English knight Sir George Wincaster and his men are caught in a horrid storm en route to France. Saved by aliens, they find that their saviours' motives are hardly altruistic; the aliens want to use them as hatchetmen and have the power to quell overt rebellion. However, the thirst for freedom is not so easily quenched, and after a long time a ghost of a chance appears to them.
This novel contains the following tropes:
- Defeating the Undefeatable
- Feudal Future
- Humans Advance Swiftly
- Humans Are Special
- Humans Are Warriors
- Outside Context Villain
- Really Seven Hundred Years Old
- The Reptilians