"There are nine sixty ways of constructing tribal lays,
"And every single one of them is right!"
Heinlein presents this quotation in a SFWA Bulletin where he, Anderson and others discuss their future histories and where Anderson also both refers to Kipling and tells us that he modeled his first future history directly on Heinlein's.
Anderson quotes Kipling in his later Harvest of Stars future history.
Gaiman tells us that one of his Sandman stories was him "doing Kipling."
Addendum: The culminating novel of the Dominic Flandry period in Anderson's Technic History is a homage to Kipling's Kim. See the combox.
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Kaor, Paul!
And, as I've told you, I too have a copy of that same BULLETIN of the SFWA you mentioned here. Where, besides Heinlein's example and inspiration, Anderson discussed as well how deeply affected he had been by John K. Hord's theory of the different phases civilizations go thru as they rose and fell.
And THE GAME OF EMPIRE is where we see Anderson doing homage to Kipling, in the Technic Civilization series.
Sean
Sean,
I should have mentioned THE GAME OF EMPIRE. Hopefully, readers of blog posts also read the combox.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I hope visitors will read the combox and sometimes leave their own remarks.
I also gave some thought to trying to recall Kipling allusions in others of the Technic stories, but did not recall any. We do see mention of the Red King's dream in A CIRCUS OF HELLS and a quote from one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems in A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS.
Sean
Kaor, Paul!
Wait! I just now recalled how Anderson ended THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN with a quote from one of Kipling's poems.
Sean
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