An Accidental Association

OK. I am rereading Blind Corner by Dornford Yates after fifty plus years (a strange experience) and, at one point, Mansel's name is misprinted as "Manse," a curious association for readers of Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series.

Observations
I have remarked that both Ian Fleming's and SM Stirling's villains are more evil than Anderson's. Yates' "Rose" Nobel is also dreadful - and I have referred to him before. See Currencies.

Contemporary fiction excludes any reference either to magic, ghosts etc (fantasy) or to speculative futures (sf). However, authors can hint. One Yates novel, The Stolen March, is a fantasy and one of its characters appears in the realistic setting of another Yates novel.

Notionally, the heroes of early twentieth century fiction existed in the past of any fantasy or sf set later. See SM Stirling's reference to John Buchan's Richard Hannay in A World War I Reference.

Theoretically, unless the world is about to end, any contemporary fiction is going to be followed by a future timeline of some sort. If Yates were to write a futuristic novel, then it would project Edwardian social distinctions into future centuries and would present unlikely technological innovations like the Pragmatometer, which I have somewhere described as labor-intensive information technology, in CS Lewis' That Hideous Strength.

Poul Anderson's futuristic sf is sometimes action-adventure space opera and sometimes serious scientifically based speculation. His Technic History incorporates both.

Lewis’ only technological anticipations are Weston’s spherical spaceships and the NICE’s labor-intensive information technology: the findings of forty interlocking daily NICE committees print themselves off in their own compartments of an Analytical Notice Board (worked by at least twenty experts) every half hour, then each report slides itself into a position where it is connected by arrows to the relevant parts of other reports, thus showing NICE policy taking shape, displaying different kinds of business in different colours.²⁸ This “Pragmatometer” contrasts quaintly with computers and with Blish’s instantaneous Dirac transmitter.
-copied from here.