I would have liked Poul Anderson to contribute to:
John Carter;
Lensman;
Superman;
Draka -
- but also to continue the Time Patrol and the Technic History.
In the first three of these examples, Anderson would have vastly improved on the originals. Take an absurd premise, as Alan Moore did with Marvelman and Swamp Thing, and turn it on its head. Carter and Kal-El have in common that each has traveled to a planet with lower gravity. Kal-El leaps above tall buildings, then flies. Carter leaps above the head of a twelve-foot green Martian and decapitates him. Probably he also moves faster. But there will be other effects that creative writers can think of. I will find out tomorrow.
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Kaor, Paul!
I ESPECIALLY like the idea of Poul Anderson writing a story set in the Draka timeline. How would he have handled or treated the Draka and their Domination? He certainly would not have APPROVED of them at their worst. Did Anderson and Stirling ever discuss the latter's Draka books?
Stirling edited a collection of stories by other authors examining the Race ca;;ed DRAKAS! The book was pub. in 2000 when Anderson yet lived and might have been under preparation for one or two years previously. So PA might have contributed a story if he had so wished.
Sean
"But there will be other effects that creative writers can think of. I will find out tomorrow."
In "Project Hail Mary" there is speculation by some characters that gravity is a factor pushing for intelligence, since you have to think faster to react to things. So there will be a tendency for inhabitants of higher gravity planets to be more intelligent.
Kaor, Jim!
Probably, but only going out into the galaxy and investigating other worlds might give us some certain answers.
Still wish Anderson might have contributed a story to Stirling's DRAKAS!
Ad astra! Sean
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