First, see Ad Astra. Notice that Robert Heinlein wrote a juvenile novel called Time For The Stars whereas a Poul Anderson collection is called Time And Stars!
Another word quite frequently used in sf titles is "World."
Poul Anderson:
Twilight World
Satan's World
The Rebel Worlds
The Winter Of The World
World Without Stars
The Byworlder
A World Named Cleopatra
The War Of Two Worlds
Three Worlds To Conquer
Is There Life On Other Worlds? (non-fiction)
And that is all unless, of course, you know better.
6 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
That is indeed a striking cover for THE BYWORLDER, even if not exactly very accurate!
There is an Anderson book called TWO WORLDS, and a collection called THE WORLDS OF POUL ANDERSON. And the title of one book, VIRGIN PLANET, where "planet" is a synonym of "world" in this context.
Sean
Sean,
What is TWO WORLDS?
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
It's the 1978 collecting by Gregg Press of QUESTION AND ANSWER and WORLD WITHOUT STARS. That volume is where I go when I want to read WORLD.
Sean
Sean,
Right. Never heard of it. I left out THE WORLDS OF POUL ANDERSON because that was a collection put together by someone else. I don't agree on including synonyms but, if we do, then PLANET OF NO RETURN becomes relevant.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I understand, re synonyms. To me, the most interesting thing about THE WORLDS OF POUL ANDERSON is how it includes two articles by different writers commenting on Anderson's works, one of them by Sandra Miesel.
Sean
And VIRGIN PLANET.
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