tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post1564905782019826547..comments2024-03-28T18:59:57.979+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Time Travel And Alternative HistoriesKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-75155212146131553122015-08-16T16:41:41.611+01:002015-08-16T16:41:41.611+01:00Kaor, Paul!
I thought of a few additional points....Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />I thought of a few additional points. The "Greek" timeline we see in "Eutopia" had discovered a means of traveling to alternate timelinese co-existing with it, without creating those timelines. One way persons from the "Greek" timeline could change history is by simply acting and DOING things in those alternate realities. And the same would apply to anyone from those "co-existing" realities who discovered the same means of traveling to other timelines.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-4405108623903504712015-08-16T10:18:18.521+01:002015-08-16T10:18:18.521+01:00Kaor, Paul!
I should have realized working with d...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />I should have realized working with diagrams would be more difficult than typing plain text. It requires a different kind of software than most of us needs to use.<br /><br />I understand about "summaries," but the problem with them is that if you keep them too brief, some very essential points gets omitted.<br /><br />The "backgrounds" in both "The House of Sorrows" and "Eutopia" are not places I would care to live in. The first is calamitously primitive and the second disgusts me by showing institutionalized child abuse. I was young enough at the time that I did not fully understand that.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-71601257022696379292015-08-16T09:15:46.734+01:002015-08-16T09:15:46.734+01:00Sean,
I can't do Venn diagrams on screen, thou...Sean,<br />I can't do Venn diagrams on screen, though! Anyone else is welcome to submit them.<br />I was trying to summarize so I just characterized one alternative 20th century as "polytheist" and the other as "Greek." Of course, Anderson spells out some logical consequences of both these premises.<br />Paul.<br /><br /><br />Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-31671030892175707682015-08-16T05:12:06.813+01:002015-08-16T05:12:06.813+01:00Kaor, Paul!
Very interesting, this use of Venn di...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Very interesting, this use of Venn diagrams or circiles to help organize and distinguish from one another the different kinds of time traveling and alternate universe stories to be found in the works of Poul Anderson. It would be a good idea to revise this blog piece to include such diagrams.<br /><br />You should have added to your comments about "The House of Sorrows" that the alternate twentieth century we see therein was not only polytheist but also intellectually, scientifically, and technologically backward. Like the "Carthaginian" timeline we see in "Delenda est." Lacking a belief in one, all mighty God and the lawfulness of nature, both lines never developed a true science.<br /><br />And I'm looking forward to your comments and views about Stirling's MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA!<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com