"I must also praise the cafe at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art. Whenever I was stuck with a problem in the narrative, a cup of their coffee and an hour or so's work in that friendly room would dispel it, apparently without effort on my part. It never failed."
-Philip Pullman, Acknowledgements IN Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (London, 2001), pp. 549-550 AT p. 549.
Narratives written by:
HG Wells
CS Lewis
Poul Anderson
Neil Gaiman
SM Stirling
Philip Pullman
and some others
- cross between parallel universes. However, of the authors mentioned, only Anderson and Gaiman describe an inn where travelers from different universes meet.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I'm also reminded of how Stirling, in the Acknowledgements he wrote for many of his books gave special thanks to the restaurants who patiently tolerated the crazy guy in the corner chortling as he tapped away at his laptop! (Smiles)
As far as I know Poul Anderson never wrote any of his stories like that, preferring a now old fashioned electric type writer and working from an office at his house.
And I wish we could have gotten one or two more Old Phoenix Inn stories from Poul Anderson.
Ad astra! Sean
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