Connections

We will now focus on just four of the works mentioned in the previous post:

Operation Chaos by Poul Anderson;
The Day After Judgment by James Blish;
Midsummer Century by Blish;
The Triumph Of Time by Blish.

It is noticeable that each of these works is part of a greater whole.

Operation Chaos, a collection and novelization of four "Operation..." stories, has a sequel, Operation Luna;

these two volumes plus two other novels and two short stories form a multiversal sequence.

The Day After Judgment is the sequel to Black Easter;

these two works are Volumes IIa and IIb of Blish's After Such Knowledge Trilogy.

Midsummer Century is connected by a Dirac message to The Quincunx Of Time, a novelization of "Beep";

After Such Knowledge, Volume III, A Case Of Conscience, and The Quincunx Of Time are two of five novels which, together with three short stories, form Blish's non-linear Haertel Scholium.

The Triumph Of Time is Volume IV of Blish's Cities In Flight Tetralogy;

the Dirac transmitter also figures prominently in Cities In Flight.

Thus, I recommend not only the four individual works but also:

the multiversal sequence;
After Such Knowledge;
the Haertel Scholium;
Cities In Flight.

It is now time to look at what Operation Chaos says about survival after death.