Furthermore, of the eight non-series stories in the fifth NESFA collection, "The Nest" is in Past Times and indeed should be in an even more comprehensive collection of Poul Anderson's shorter works on time travel. Anderson replies to Twain and Wells.
Twain
Would a modern man be able to survive and thrive in an earlier period?
Yes in A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court and in "The Little Monster."
No in "The Man Who Came Early."
Wells
Would a time traveler arrive in a future dystopia involving cannibalism?
Yes in The Time Machine and "Welcome."
What would a time traveler find in the remote future?
Comprehensive answers in The Time Machine and "Flight to Forever."
One further point about "The Nest": Norman bandits using the Time Rover are time travel equivalents of the barbarians with spaceships and nuclear weapons in Anderson's Technic History.
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Kaor, Paul!
A COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON would collect stories with similar starting points or themes but not parts of a series in their own volumes, and print them in the order they were pub. Series stories would be pub. in internal chronological order in their own volumes.
And of course all the UNCOLLECTED stories and essays of Anderson would be tracked down and placed in such a COMPLETE WORKS!
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
The "Galactic Federation/League etc" is another such theme that is not a series: all the stories where an interstellar civilization intervenes secretly on Earth, like "Details."
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I agree! And "Peek! I See You!" is another example, and which also touches on UFOs and our equivalents of "Star Believers."
Ad astra! Sean
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