"Eve Times Four" II

Poul Anderson's "Eve Times Four" in NESFA Vol 3:

is yet another Holmesian story ("Time Patrol" and "The Martian Crown Jewels" are in NESFA Vol 1 and "The Queen of Air and Darkness" is the title story of NESFA Vol 2);

makes the interesting point that, on a planet with longer days and nights, organisms active at night and those active by day will be more specialized and differentiated;

presents clues that we, or at least I, did not recognize as such (e.g., why is planetary rotation so slow when there is no large satellite to retard it?);

presents an odd mixture of castaways - one young man, three young women, one older woman, two extraterrestrial quadrupeds of different species - but then explains the oddity;

nevertheless, remains an example of a kind of rather flippant humor that does not appeal to me.

NESFA Vol 1 contains the three Wing Alak stories.

NESFA Vols 1-3 contain the first three Time Patrol stories although these are collected in Time Patrol.

NESFA Vols 2-3 contain the first two of the three Gunnar Heim stories although these are collected with the third in The Star Fox.

 

NESFA Vol 2 contains two Flying Mountains stories and Vol 3 has another two although these are all collected in Tales of the Flying Mountains.

The second Rustum story is in NESFA Vol 2 and the first is in NESFA Vol 3 although these are collected in Orbit Unlimited.