"The Faun," Boys' Life, September, 1968. Copyright The Boy Scouts of America.
The above item should have been on the list.
Is "The Year of the Ransom" a juvenile? This is partly a matter of how it was marketed (I am not sure) and of how it struck us (it struck me as juvenile or at least Young Adult).
Four installments of the Technic History are juveniles and Anderson was more imaginative than just to present, e.g., a teenage Dominic Flandry. We should be grateful to the editor, Roger Elwood, and to the magazine, Boy's Life, for making possible these different aspects of the Technic History. A future history series needs to be as diverse and as many-angled as possible.
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Kaor, Paul!
I'm willing to concede "The Year of the Ransom" is possibly somewhat debatably not a juvenile. I would call it definitely a "Young Adult" story.
Yes, a series as long and varied as Anderson's Technic Series should be as multi-angled as possible. There are so many questions and gaps I would like to have seen answered or filled in! Perhaps a story about Emperor Georgios? Or what happened to Leon Ammon in later years? And maybe something more could have been told us about Diana Crowfeather, Targovi, and Fr. Axor?
Sean
Sean,
Also the different perspectives that we get: what it is like to be a student on Earth, to grow up on Avalon, to be an orphan on Daedalus, to convert to a Terrestrial religion. The further possibilities here are endless.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I agree, the possibilities are endless! And I mentioned Emperor Georgios because I would have liked to have gotten similar viewpoints from a man at a truly unique viewpoint, what does all this look like to a Terran Emperor? I recall how the Merseian who served Kossara Vymezal's family said there were those on Merseia who would be glad to see another Emperor whose heart was full of either fear or foolishness. And I don't think that was the case with Georgios!
Sean
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