Sorry, folks, today we are mainly gardening and preparing to deliver a talk this evening.
Years ago, an sf fan remarked to me that usually a time travel story merely informs its readers that its characters are in a particular past year whereas Poul Anderson describes the world in any given past year in minute detail. For example, he devotes several pages to the sights, sounds, smells and life in the harbour and streets of Tyre in 950 AD and all of this is well worth reading even before we arrive at the action: an attempt on Manse Everard's life. Another author might have started with the action.
Meanwhile, since I am an active being, that is all that I have time for right now.
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Kaor, Paul!
Alas, not all readers, to their loss, appreciate the attention paid to detail in their stories by Anderson, Tolkien, and Stirling. The chief complaint being how that attention to detail slows down the action. I was also irritated by the carping gripes of readers objecting to how often Tolkien includes poetry in THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
Unfortunately, given how bad so many schools in the US are, far too many "students" are barely literate.
Ad astra! Sean
Ad astra! Sean
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