How to transform the Earth Book into Saga, Vol I:
remove the last five works - these are distributed through Vols II and III;
add "The Saturn Game" at the beginning of the volume;
add the first and second of the three stories that were previously collected as The Trouble Twisters at the middle of the volume;
add the first of the three stories that were previously collected as Trader To The Stars at the end.
Thus, the contents of Vol I become:
"The Saturn Game"
"Wings of Victory"
"The Problem of Pain"
"Margin of Profit"
"How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson"
"The Three-Cornered Wheel"
"A Sun Invisible"
"The Season of Forgiveness"
The Man Who Counts
"Esau"
"Hiding Place"
An Earth Book double sandwich.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
A very reasonable arrangement! My only quibble is wondering whether collecting these stories for a volume of a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON. For a COMPLETE WORKS you want volumes which are not too thin and not too thick. How would you distribute the Technic stories among a COMPLETE WORKS?
Sean
Sean,
I have discussed this on the blog and changed my mind several times. I think basically the League period in 3 vol, the Flandry period in 3, post-Flandry in 1. The thickest vol would by the Young Flandry trilogy with "Outpost of Empire" and THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN collected together.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
A little thick, I think, but not excessively so. And the volume collecting the four post-Imperial stories should, I argue, include the original texts of the Technic stories Anderson revised.
Sean
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