Friday, 10 May 2019

Stormy Weather

Characters in Neil Gaiman's American Gods predict stormy weather, meaning a war between old and new gods.

In Poul Anderson's The Shield Of Time, the Time Patrol makes what provision it can against a temporal catastrophe while there is a storm above New York.

In Anderson's The Earth Book Of Stormgate, van Rijn and Falkayn move data units to Hermes because a time of storms is brewing in the Solar System.

Fiction reflects reality.
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1 comment:

  1. Sean M. Brooks10 May 2019 at 15:13

    Kaor, Paul!

    And because of you, I'm now more AWARE of the symbolic uses or implications of "storm weather" in Anderson's works. I had once on a time simply taken such details for granted, as simply background color.

    Sean

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