tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post1986905622152397505..comments2024-03-28T23:42:09.625+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: This Week And NextKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-13853121794362425142014-05-28T15:33:09.503+01:002014-05-28T15:33:09.503+01:00Hi, Paul!
I should have added that another differ...Hi, Paul!<br /><br />I should have added that another difference between Anderson and Tolkien was how much more PROLIFIC the former was. Anderson gave us so much MORE for fans to imaginatively place themselves into or merely to speculate about. Great writer tho he was, Tolkien, alas, was slow and dilatory (something his friend C.S. Lewis commented on with affectionate exasperation). Hence, PA gave us several "worlds" in which fans can imaginatively place themselves: the Technic History, Time Patrol, the Harvest of Stars books, the Psychotechnic Institute, even the Interbeing League of the Hoka stories, etc.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-63697846826313962362014-05-28T08:20:42.718+01:002014-05-28T08:20:42.718+01:00Hi, Paul!
I agree with you in saying I could easi...Hi, Paul!<br /><br />I agree with you in saying I could easily imagine myself living in the Technic History timeline. And I would include Tolkien's Middle Earthy mythos as well. While very different writers, both Tolkien and Anderson were similiar in the richness and depth imparted by them to their "alternate worlds." So much so I could imagine myself living in Third Age Gondor amost as easily as I could imagine myself living in the Terran Empire of Dominic Flandry's time.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com