Saturday 26 June 2021

Planets And Civilizations II

In Poul Anderson's Technic History:

in "Wings of Victory," the Olga, which explores Ythri, is part of the first Grand Survey during the pre-Solar Commonwealth period of Technic civilization;

in "A Tragedy of Errors," Roan Tom seeks spaceship repairs on the planet Nike during the Long Night;

in The Night Face, a joint Nuevamerican-Lochlanna expedition in the ship, Quetzal, investigates Gwydion;

in "The Sharing of Flesh," An Allied Planet team in the spaceship, New Dawn, surveys Lokon.

In other Anderson futures:

in "The Horn of Time the Hunter," a Kith ship, the Golden Flyer, visits the unnamed oceanic planet;

in "The High Ones," the spaceship, Rurik, representing a global soviet dictatorship, visits an extra-solar planet.

The same basic narrative structure in six scenarios.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

A similar narrative structure, but otherwise with very different characters and outcomes.

Ad astra! Sean