-Poul Anderson, "Delenda Est" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 201), pp. 173-228 AT p. 199.
"'Last one in is a Tasmanian!'"
-SM Stirling, Prince Of Outcasts (New York, 2017), Chapter Fifteen, p. 301.
"He plunged, got hold of a slender leg, and pulled her under."
-Anderson, p. 200.
"...a hand clamped around his ankle and pulled him underwater..."
-Stirling, p. 302.
"'...she's half polar bear."
-Anderson, p. 200.
"Pip seemed to be part sea-otter..."
-Stirling, p. 302.
Deirdre, tumbling and frolicking in the Atlantic, is compared to a polar bear whereas Pip, swimming effortlessly in the Pacific, is compared to a sea-otter.
Three parallels between two accounts.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And the way Stirling used these parallels you pointed inevitably makes me think he was deliberately being Andersonian!
Bye, bye, commment! (Wry smile)
Sean
Actually in that case I think it was unconscious. All the better!
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Yes, I can see that, more artistically satisfactory if the parallels or allusions to Anderson was unconscious.
But the time I noticed you briefly putting in an Ensign Domimique Flandry could not have been accidental!
Ad astra! Sean
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