tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post7244418169214223891..comments2024-03-29T09:09:24.834+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Literary TraditionsKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-41676256687262958202022-07-27T18:38:50.115+01:002022-07-27T18:38:50.115+01:00I seem to have read more of H. Beam Piper, than Pa...I seem to have read more of H. Beam Piper, than Paul or Sean.<br />I would 2nd Sean in the opinion of his worthiness as an SF writer.<br />Both his future history & his Paratime stories are well worth reading.<br />A sort of connection with Stirling's "Court of the Crimson Kings" is that in some stories he at least implies that Earth humans are descended from humans who evolved on Mars & migrated to Earth as conditions there grew too hostile.Jim Baerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182949391365921637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-1459757573064958812015-07-14T17:11:41.311+01:002015-07-14T17:11:41.311+01:00Kaor, Paul!
One writer I don't think you have...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />One writer I don't think you have commented on who has written about things like the rise and fall of interstellar civilizations and empires is H. Beam Piper. I cannot adequately comment about Piper because I have not read enough of his works to do so (I've read some of his short stories and his "Little Fuzzy" books).<br /><br />And, altho set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Avram Davidson's THE ADVENTURES OF DR ESZTERHAZY also came to mind. These are Ruritanian fantasies set in the Triune Monarchy of Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania whose fin de siecle mood and increasing sense of foreboding reminds me of Doninic Flandry's anxieties about the Terran Empire.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com