Valeria Matuchek from the two Operation... novels and Holger Danske from Three Hearts And Three Lions meet in the Old Phoenix in A Midsummer Tempest and both are again mentioned in the Old Phoenix story, "Losers' Night";
Nicholas van Rijn from the Technic History visits the Old Phoenix in "House Rule";
Anderson acknowledges Heinlein's Future History by mentioning in "Losers' Night" that blind Rhysling also visited the Old Phoenix - we hope that he met van Rijn;
the hero of a one-off juvenile short story meets Adzel when the latter is a student on Earth;
van Rijn cameos in the first trader team story, interacts fully with the team in three later works and is mentioned elsewhere either as a celebrity or as a historical figure.
However, I think that Dornford Yates surpasses most other authors for character interactions. See here.
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Kaor, Paul!
Mention of A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST reminded me of how piquant it was to see balloons, steam powered ships and railroads, etc., in the England of Charles I and Cromwell!
And Shakespeare was not the Great Playwright, but the Great HISTORIAN. The mention of even primitive cannon in HAMLET prob. gave Anderson the idea of technology advancing more rapidly in that alternate England/Europe than in ours.
Sean
Sean,
Also I think a clock in JULIUS CAESAR and knowledge of the Earth's rotundity in KING LEAR.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
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While mechanical clocks were not invented that early in our timeline, knowledge of the roundness of the Earth was not that odd. Educated people had known since Eratosthenes time of Earth being a spheroid and even a good idea of its size.
Sean
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