-Rudyard Kipling, Kim (London, 1944), p. 1.
"She sat on the tower of St Barbara, kicking her heels from the parapet, and looking across immensity...'Who holds St Barbara's holds the planet.' That saying was centuries obsolete..."
-Poul Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (New York, 2012), pp. 195-196.
"He crossed his hands on his lap and smiled, as a man may who has won Salvation for himself and his beloved." (Kipling, p. 413)
"He crossed his hands on his forelegs and smiled, as a being may who is winning salvation for himself and his beloved." (Anderson, p. 453)
Opening and concluding passages of novels.
3 comments:
Hi, Paul!
Indeed, it's plain Poul Anderson meant the opening and concluding texts of THE GAMEO F EMPIRE as homages to Kipling's KIM. And I wonder if more can be found in betweeen--but maybe not many, because an SF novel set more than a thousand years from now HAS to be different from a book set during the British Raj in the late 1800's. Altho the rivalry between the British Empire and Tsarist Russia in central Asia can easily remind us of the far vaster struggle between the Terran Empire and the Merseian Roidhunate.
Sean
Sean,
I have not read much of KIM yet but I am finding some more parallels.
Paul.
Hi, Paul!
I agree, you have found more parallels comparing KIM to THE GAME OF EMPIRE than I had expected. It's been a very long time since I read KIM.
Sean
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