"The Dronning Margrete was not of a size to land safely on a planet. Her auxiliaries were small spaceships in their own right." (p. 81)
This is familiar territory to Trekkies although the Dronning Margrete is not as big as the Enterprise and does not have "transporters." But Poul Anderson does have teleportation in other works.
Okie cities are even bigger but do land on planets. However, they control gravity and were built on planets in the first place. They are around us now. In Anderson's Psychotechnic History, Nomad ships are big enough to carry entire clans, who live in them, but they also land on planets.
It feels as if these future histories:
the Technic History
the Okie History
Star Trek
the Psychotechnic History
- and some others are very close to each other if not also to our timeline. Surely Trekkies should check out Anderson and Blish?
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I only wish Trekkies and STAR WARS fans would check out at least Anderson's stories!* I've never found either STAR TREK or the STAR WARS series very satisfactory. Compared to the written works of masters I read as a boy, such as Anderson, Asimov, Bradbury, Clark, Heinlein, Norton, etc., ST and SW always struck me as thin, shallow, trite, and superficial.
Ad astra! Sean
*I am not sure many of Blish's stories, esp. his series, would appeal that much to many readers today.
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