Showing posts with label Inheritors of Earth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Inheritors of Earth. Show all posts

Friday, 28 March 2014

Inheritors Of Earth

Inheritors Of Earth is an sf novel by Gordon Eklund and Poul Anderson, based on Anderson's 1950 short story, "Incomplete Superman." The novel features three forms of humanity:

Mortals, the most populous;
Superiors, described as orphans living in shadows;
the Others, enslavers and terrorists.

I have never encountered "Incomplete Superman" and had never heard of Inheritors Of Earth until I found its cover illustration this evening while searching for another Anderson image. Thus, here is an entirely unexpected novel co-written by Anderson. And I think that Anderson also novelized a Man-Kzin Wars story that he wrote?

While waiting for Multiverse, maybe I need to start tracking down the NESFA collections, which are hard to get in the UK? Although they include many familiar stories, they also seem to be lengthy volumes containing plenty of other works not previously collected or anthologized. Yet they are not a Complete Works. Reading everything written by Anderson seems to be an impossible task.