Awesomeness

I have scrolled back down this blog. The content is awesome. I am not congratulating myself. The contents of these posts are entirely down to Poul Anderson and to comparable writers like SM Stirling. I could not have written any of these works but can read, reread and recommend. Plot summaries and commentaries illustrated with book covers or with other appropriate images should provide good introductions or reminders for other readers.

I turned to rereading one chapter of Anderson's Starfarers while awaiting the third volume of his collected short works which was to arrive by post. Now I will read one more new (to me) story in this volume and then maybe reread one or two of the already familiar works before returning to an in-depth rereading of Starfarers although I had posted about this novel, I thought comprehensively, before. Word by word rereading and posting is incomparably more rewarding than reading a book from cover to cover then going on to something else. Anderson's apparently endless detail work in thinking through the backgrounds and rationales of his plots can easily be missed by readers carried forward by the momentum of an exciting action-adventure narrative, although such works can also serve as entertaining diversions for anyone who does not want to delve any deeper into their texts.

Each work has at least two levels and usually a lot more.