tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post5690188980477996111..comments2024-03-29T09:09:24.834+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: SkyscrapersKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-15490001742565526242016-05-16T08:26:21.127+01:002016-05-16T08:26:21.127+01:00Nicholas,
Congratulations. You win the God's D...Nicholas,<br />Congratulations. You win the God's Daughter competition.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-15057488760537348432016-05-16T03:10:08.793+01:002016-05-16T03:10:08.793+01:00Kaor, Nicholas!
Why didn't I think of "...Kaor, Nicholas! <br /><br />Why didn't I think of "The Longest Voyage"? I actually did wonder which Poul Anderson story had characters believing in "God's Daughter."<br /><br />"The Longest Voyage" is not the only Anderson story showing us events happening on planet sized moons of giant gas giants. Wayland, in A CIRCUS OF HELLS comes to mind. And in VIRGIN PLANET, we see the very terrestroid planet Atlantis, a moon of the gas giant Minos.<br /><br />Regards! SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-12853387078943540042016-05-16T01:02:03.574+01:002016-05-16T01:02:03.574+01:00Kaor, Paul!
"The Longest Voyage" refers...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />"The Longest Voyage" refers to "God's Daughter." It's set on a "lost colony" where the realm of Montalir has become an equivalent to Elizabethan England, and the story is narrated by a boy on a ship commanded by a Francis Drake analogue, circumnavigating the world, which is actually the moon of a Jovian planet.<br /><br />Best Regards,<br />Nicholas D. RosenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-74819739626804196132016-05-15T21:27:57.360+01:002016-05-15T21:27:57.360+01:00Kaor, Paul!
SAINT Taranis??? Egads! (Smiles) Poss...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />SAINT Taranis??? Egads! (Smiles) Possible, I suppose, but it doesn't seem very likely that ex-pagans who rejected Taranis as a god would somehow come to venerate him as a "saint." More likely, I think, would be for a Cathedral of St. Corentinus to be built on the site of Taranis' temple. <br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-33760586931268414662016-05-15T21:15:54.471+01:002016-05-15T21:15:54.471+01:00Sean,
I did think of the Christian possibility aft...Sean,<br />I did think of the Christian possibility afterwards. And maybe a Cathedral of SAINT Taranis if that deity had been incorporated into the Canon.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-47592082074403777652016-05-15T21:03:41.162+01:002016-05-15T21:03:41.162+01:00Kaor, Paul!
You overlooked one fairly obvious the...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />You overlooked one fairly obvious theological possibility regarding an Ys which was not destroyed: the city might have become CHRISTIANIZED. And we might have seen a Cathedral of St. Corentinus THERE, rather than in the real world Quimpo.<br /><br />Also, I'm not entirely sure if modern style skyscrapers in Ys would have been possible UNLESS the city had greatly expanded onto higher ground above sea level. After all, Ys covers a fairly small amount of land in the novel (all of which is supposed to be below sea level).<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com