please read or reread Sean M. Brooks' "Sector Governors in the Terran Empire," here;
please also read the combox for that article.
You will find (so far) 28 comments by:
Sean
Bob Hutchinson
me
Anonymous
Johan Ortiz
Bob comments on the distance of Alpha Crucis.
Anonymous, who is possibly also Bob, comments on the volumes of the Terran Empire.
Johan discusses galactography in detail.
Poul Anderson's Technic History presents data about the relative directions and distances of particular stars, planetary systems and inhabited or colonized planets. Are these data consistent and accurate? Were the distances known with accuracy when Anderson wrote these works? Might it be possible to update and revise the galactography of the History without, of course, tampering with the texts? As yet, Johan is the blog's resident expert.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I only wish my recent comments to that article of mine was as SUBSTANTIAL as the recent remarks of Johan Ortiz were! I think Anderson did make some galactographic errors due to the inadequate methods of estimating stellar distances available to him at the time he wrote WE CLAIM THESE STARS. And I think including commentaries discussing such points after some of Anderson's stories would be a good idea. After all, some of Sandra Miesel's essays were included as Introductions or Afterwords to some of Anderson's works, so there would be precedents for that idea.
Sean
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