Alice meets one (see image). Stirling's Tom Christiansen, investigating the smuggling of rare species, recognizes a caged, and just dying, dodo. Later, when he is being introduced to the alternative timeline:
"'Dodos?' [Tom] murmured. 'And tigers and bears, oh my!'"
-SM Stirling, Conquistador (New York, 2004), p. 248.
When Poul Anderson's Wanda Tamberly realizes that she can join the Time Patrol and study live prehistoric animals, she thinks:
"Mammoths and cave bears and dodos, oh my!"
-Poul Anderson, Time Patrol (New York, 2006), p. 735.
We strive for literary unity between the universes!
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
As Stirling himself said, bad writers have influences, good writers STEAL. I suspect you have here found a direct connection of Stirling with Anderson. (Smiles)
Sean
Actually, when I see "___ and ___ and ___, oh my!" the very first thing that jumps into my head is the movie *The Wizard of Oz*, so I'm not sure that counts as a true Anderson-Stirling connection. It's only certain that both their characters are referring to the same film.
David,
Thank you. I have not seen the film often enough to remember that line.
Paul.
Hi, David,
I'm a bit chagrined! After all, I ALSO thought of "The Wizard of Oz" movie as well as the possible connection with Anderson. In fact, I have to admit Stirling was probably more likely referring, this time, to the movie, not Anderson.
Sean
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