The blog has a list of
Great Cities, a list of
meals and a list of
authors compared with Poul Anderson. The cities and meals lists have grown recently. Since each of these posts links to many others, I hope that, by linking to them here, I can direct page viewers to a lot of interesting reading - without too much additional effort by myself on this occasion!
6 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Ha! You have inspired me to extra efforts here, as when I recently started citing and quoting from A CIRCUS OF HELLS. But I certainly did not mind!
I took a look at the list of authors you linked to. And I agree Poul Anderson MUST have read at least some of the works of most of these authors. I do wish you had included Dante Alighieri in it. Since mention is made of Dante, I think, in OPERATION CHAOS, it's reasonable to think Anderson had read a translation of the DIVINE COMEDY.
Another writer I like is Avram Davidson. I have wondered if he ever read his collection THE ADVENTURES OF DR. ESZTERHAZY? I like to think PA also enjoyed those stories.
Sean
Sean,
I have not read Davidson.
Paul.
Sean,
The authors list has been extended.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I saw how you included Dante's name in the list of authors Poul Anderson either definitely or might have read. Thanks!
And I believe Avram Davidson, at his best, is very much worth reading. My favorites being the stories he set in the evocatively named Triune Monarchy of Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania.
Sean
sean,
It is mainly a list of authors that I have compared Anderson with, including some that he definitely did not read like Julian whom I knew in Lancaster and Peter whom I still know.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Understood. And Poul Anderson almost certainly must have read some of Davidson's works. They were near contemporaries, after all. And Avram Davidon was even the editor of THE MAGAZINE OF SF AND F for two years in the 1960's--meaning he may well have accepted some of the Anderson stories we saw there.
Sean
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