Past, Present And Future

I have read a lot of Poul Anderson but almost no Gordon R Dickson. In a Special SFWA Bulletin in 1979, Anderson discussed his first two future histories and Dickson discussed his unfinished Childe Cycle.

The Childe Cycle, if completed, would have comprised three historical novels, three set in the twentieth century and six in the future. Anderson wrote fiction set in all of these periods but did not link them into a series. James Blish's After Such Knowledge is set in past, present and future but is just three works.

The proposed Child Cycle novels
(i) the life of Sir John Hawkwood, general, born in England in the 1320's, died in Florence, 1394;
(ii) John Milton, poet and pamphleteer during Cromwell's Protectorate, 17th century;
(iii) Robert Browning, poet, nineteenth century;
(iv) George Santayana, philosopher;
(v) a fictitious character during World War II;
(vi) probably about a female character, to be written in the 1990's and set in the 1980's;
(vii) Necromancer, second half of the 21st century;
(viii) Tactics of Mistake, 22nd century;
(ix) Dosai!, 23rd century;
(x) Soldier, Ask Not, contemporaneous with, and overlapping with, (ix);
(xi) The Final Encyclopedia, 24th century;
(xii) Childe, sequel to (xi).