Three Paperbacks I
Three Paperbacks II
Three Paperbacks III
Poul Anderson's Ninth Future History
A Future History Or Not?
Orbit Unlimited
"Robin Hood's Barn"
"The Burning Bridge"
"And Yet So Far"
"The Mills Of The Gods"
New America
"My Own, My Native Land"
"Passing The Love Of Women"
"A Fair Exchange"
"To Promote The General Welfare"
"The Queen Of Air And Darkness"
"Our Many Roads To The Stars"
The Queen Of Air And Darkness And Other Stories
"The Queen Of Air And Darkness"
"Home"
"The Alien Enemy"
"The Faun"
"In The Shadow"
"Time Lag"
Revisions
(i) Remove "Home" from New America.
(ii) Put "Our Many Roads To The Stars" in a collection of non-fiction articles by Poul Anderson.
(iii) Remove "The Queen Of Air And Darkness" from The Queen Of Air
(iv) Put "In The Shadow" in a multi-volume collection of non-series short stories by Anderson.
(v) Combine Orbit Unlimited and what is left of New America in one volume to be called The Rustum History.
(vi) Republish what is left of The Queen Of Air And Darkness And Other Stories as The Directorate History.
That would give us:
one volume of articles;
many volumes of non-series short stories;
two one-volume future histories -
- although whether we would have linked "The Faun" and "Time Lag" to "Home" and "The Alien Enemy" if they had not been collected in the same volume is another question.
Although the Directorate sequence is not prolonged, we recognize within it those elements of future historical writing that could have generated a framework for a longer series.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I agree with your suggested rearranging of these stories by Poul Anderson. But, Anderson wrote enough non-fiction essays that more than one volume would be needed to collect them.
One idea I've had would be to pore thru my dauntingly large collection of Anderson books to make a list of his non-fictional essays, which some of them have. Such a list, including the uncollected essays I listed in my "Uncollected Works of Poul Anderson" article, might be of some interest. I admit my laziness has prevented me from yet doing that!
Anderson's original, proposed title for the stories collected in ORBIT UNLIMITED was A PLACE FOR LIBERTY, but the publisher insisted on the unsatisfactory ORBIT title, which the author accepted. What I've thought is that AND YET SO FAR, the title of the third story, would have been better than the others. A title should be suggested but not reveal too much, which is what I think AND YET SO FAR would have done.
Sean
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