Films And Books

We saw Avatar: The Way of Water and I could not help wishing that I could see The People Of The Wind. Human-Ythrian battle scenes would be not only spectacular but also comprehensible and even plausible as long as the dramatization was able to convey Poul Anderson's explanations. After all its action, Avatar... ends with its main protagonist and his main antagonist still alive and able to fight another round. Anderson usually used continuing characters more sparingly. 

I would like to see the Technic History filmed in chronological order of fictitious events from "The Saturn Game" to "Starfog," whether or not that would make current commercial sense. Some prequels are not only written later but also meant to be read later - which they have to be anyway if we are reading a series as it is published. Readers like to learn what had happened earlier, which can include how an already established character began his career. Thus, Young Flandry after Captain Flandry. John Watson began by telling us how he met Sherlock Holmes but later recounted, in two stages, how Holmes had become a consulting detective.

 Although Mirkheim was written as a continuation of "Lodestar," it made sense, in the original order of book publication, to read Hloch's account of how van Rijn had come to the planet called Mirkheim after we had read the novel of that name but maybe that would make less sense on screen? - unless it really was made clear that, after the Terran War, Hloch gathers the material for the Earth Book which will include some extended flashbacks.

In the books, before The Technic Civilization Saga, there was a Polesotechnic League Tetralogy followed by an Ythrian diptych with an entire second Polesotechnic League series enclosed in an Ythrian sandwich in the second volume of the diptych but I have enthused about this before.