tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post3790871079672038156..comments2024-03-28T07:57:49.338+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Missing Sequels?Ketlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-81748161639682570522016-08-15T15:50:46.669+01:002016-08-15T15:50:46.669+01:00Kaor, Paul!
I want to revise one of my suggestion...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />I want to revise one of my suggestions. I now think it would be better, in any COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON, to place THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS and OPERATION CHAOS in one volume. And the next volume would have OPERATION LUNA and A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST. Mostly because I don't think THREE HEARTS is quite long enough to comprise a separate volume in a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-16791697243190112542016-08-14T08:50:18.003+01:002016-08-14T08:50:18.003+01:00Kaor, Paul!
Yes, I remember the mention of Valeri...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Yes, I remember the mention of Valeria Matuchek. Albeit, it was seeing Winston S. Churchill and Queen Mary I in "Losers' Night" which stuck in my mind. I'm also inclined to think the narrator of the story was Poul Anderson!<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-8052361146281747512016-08-14T08:38:30.018+01:002016-08-14T08:38:30.018+01:00Sean,
Yes, -S. "Losers' Night" lists...Sean,<br />Yes, -S. "Losers' Night" lists Valeria Matuchek among great women so this story is a summit of the entire sequence.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-17115622319852818342016-08-14T08:33:30.967+01:002016-08-14T08:33:30.967+01:00Kaor, Paul!
I like your suggestion and agree with...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />I like your suggestion and agree with it. I think you meant THE OLD PHOENIX AND OTHER UNIVERSES? These short stories all deal, one way or another, with alternate universes. Perhaps a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON should have the two OPERATION books in one volume? <br /><br />And the Old Phoenix sequence (including the novels) can actually be said to "tie in" with Anderson's Technic Civilization. Which I thought amazing! Because we see Nicholas van Rijn in "House Rule."<br /><br />That is perhaps not so surprising. Because Technic Civilization descended directly from OUR civilization. It would of course be familiar with the alternate universe speculations of Poul Anderson, L. Sprague DeCamp, S.M. Stirling, etc. <br /><br />And the allusions in A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS to the work of John K. Hord is yet another point of contact Technic Civilization has with ours.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-11960823990130966352016-08-14T08:12:56.544+01:002016-08-14T08:12:56.544+01:00Sean,
I agree with your order for your reason. I t...Sean,<br />I agree with your order for your reason. I think a 5th vol should be THE OLD PHOENIX AND OTHER UNIVERSE: <br /><br />"The House of Sorrows"<br />"Eutopia"<br />"House Rule"<br />"Losers' Night"<br /><br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-11171353449517706912016-08-14T03:40:17.383+01:002016-08-14T03:40:17.383+01:00Kaor, Paul!
In terms of "internal chronology...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />In terms of "internal chronology," IF I can use that phrase in this context, I would list the books as seen below.<br /><br />THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS<br />OPERATION CHAOS<br />OPERATION LUNA<br />A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST<br /><br />I thought of placing A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST after OPERATION CHAOS. But we see Valeria Matuchek as an adult in TEMPEST, and she was still a teenager in LUNA. But I'm not sure where to place the two Old Phoenix short stories.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-32263650810818937062016-08-13T22:16:40.081+01:002016-08-13T22:16:40.081+01:00Sean,
Yes, inhabitants of the goetic universe conf...Sean,<br />Yes, inhabitants of the goetic universe confirm the existence of other universes and start to travel between them in later volumes.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-46639295452923712372016-08-13T22:13:17.910+01:002016-08-13T22:13:17.910+01:00Kaor, Paul!
Maybe the vital information Steven Ma...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Maybe the vital information Steven Matuchek was trying to "broadcast" was that God and Satan are REAL beings. That the Adversary is unyieldingly hostile to mankind and all other intelligent races. And we do see people from Matuchek's timeline, including his own daughter, somehow traveling to other universes (see the Old Phoenix interludes in A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST).<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com