"'...she and I decided to run away and go on a Quest of our own; to find the Solitary Fortress of Ice where the Super Man lives.'"
-SM Stirling, The Desert And The Blade (New York, 2016), Chapter Fourteen, p. 285.
How did two Changelings know about that?
Earlier blog references:
Superman
Clark Kent -
an immigrant with a small town upbringing;
a champion of the American Way;
a hard sf character initiating a new genre.
It is appropriate that Superman is referenced in sf. I think that Poul Anderson would have been able to write an amazing Superman novel plausibly rationalizing the Kryptonian super powers and definitively addressing issues of power and society.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteThis does make me wonder why Poul Anderson never tried his hand at writing such a story. Probably because he simply never thought of it.
Sean