Thursday, 21 December 2017

Influences II: American

Mark Twain And L. Sprague de Camp
A time traveler trying to change the course of history.

Robert Heinlein (some influences definite, others conjectural)
Magic as technology.
Circular causality.
A future history series.
A future revolution.
Experimental longevity.
A generation ship.

Isaac Asimov (presumably)
A humanoid robot.
A predictive science of society.

Syntheses
The predictive science of society applied within the generation ship.
Time travel within an interstellar spaceship.

Ward Moore ?
Poul Anderson stated in correspondence that he could not remember whether he had read Bring The Jubilee (1953) before or after writing "Time Patrol" (1955).

Thus, the definite influences are few but major.

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