Fantasy And Realism

Nicholas van Rijn visits the fantasy setting of the Old Phoenix, the inn between universes, without comprising the hard sf of the Technic History in which he is a major character. How an author writing in different genres might subtly interconnect his various works while maintaining their respective narrative integrities has been one recurrent theme on this blog. In fact, there are relevant posts that I cannot readily find. For example, a known Time Patrol member might move among the characters in a twentieth century contemporary novel without making any explicit reference to his time traveling in that particular text.

In Dornford Yates' interconnected works, a woman called Eulalie:

features in the contemporary short story collection, Jonah and Co.;

visits Etchechuria, a magical kingdom concealed between France and Spain, in the fantasy novel, The Stolen March;

is mentioned in the contemporary thriller, Adele and Co., where one of the characters summarizes what we know became of Eulalie after her return from Etchechuria but, of course, without making any reference to the existence of that fabulous realm.