Thursday, 2 November 2023

Time And Stars

The bagful of Poul Anderson paperbacks that arrived today contained one volume that I had not possessed, a collection, Time and Stars, which contains:

"No Truce with Kings"
"Turning Point"
"Escape from Orbit"
"Epilogue"
"The Critique of Impure Reason"

This highlights the arbitrariness of the contents of Anderson collections. I read a public library copy of a Gollancz hardcover edition of Time and Stars in the 1960s. I  had since totally forgotten "Eve Times Four" and thought that I was reading it for the first time when I found it in a NESFA collection in 2015.

The title, Time and Stars, sums up most of what Poul Anderson is about: history, cosmological time, time travel and interstellar space travel. Heinlein has a juvenile novel, Time For The Stars, whose title combines the same two iconic nouns.

Addendum: I think that we have discussed all these stories and the posts can be found by searching the blog.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I have a copy of TIME AND STARS (White Lion, 1976) as well. I liked best "No Truce With Kings," "Epilogue," and "The Critique of Impure Reason." That last one was a real laugh riot!

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Ah, those yellow Gollancz SF covers! I got several dozens of them in Kenya in the 60's, sold by a departing Englishman, and they solidified my budding identification with SF.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

Good, I'm glad! I too have one of those yellow jacketed Gollancz books.

Ad astra! Sean