I wrote here that:
both Holmes and Bond have become myths while Anderson's and Larsson's characters have mythic potential.
Although Conan Doyle's, Fleming's and Larsson's works are good and successful as prose fiction, they have obviously been boosted by film adaptations, particularly Bond.
In 1987, Anthony Burgess wrote that:
Holmes and Bond have become myths;
Bond's films have boosted him to his larger audience;
Bond is less universal than Holmes because rejected by the Soviet bloc.
But more time has passed and the Soviet bloc is no longer with us. Russian sf of that period portrayed peaceful interactions with aliens. Its writers would have disapproved of American interstellar empires and particularly of Anderson's Merseian Roidhunate as a fictional counterpart of the USSR. But Anderson wrote many kinds of sf, covering every option.
And, since sf films are now being made, it is time for Anderson's Technic History to be adapted to screen.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
In it's brutality and cynicism, Stirling's Domination of the Draka was certainly analogous to the equally brutal and cynical USSR. In fact, my view is that a real world Domination would have been far more dangerous to us than the Soviets. Because Stirling's Draka were, unfortunately, no where as wastefully stupid, corrupt, and incompetent as the Soviets.
Still, I would not like Anderson's Merseian Roidhunate. Merseians shaped by the dominant Wilwidh culture which unified that world were racists, after all. And willing to oppress or exterminate other races which opposed Merseia. For all its faults I far prefer the Empire.
Ad astra! Sean
Kaor, Paul!
This time I want to talk about the truly horrible cover illustration some hater of Dominic Flandry designed for this edition of ENSIGN FLANDRY. I assume the grotesque looking "reptiloid" is suppose to look like a Merseian. But it looks NOTHING like a Merseian and actually maligns and slanders them!
This has to be one of the most ugly cover illustrations inflicted on any of Anderson's books! Perversely designed to drive readers AWAY from giving ENSIGN FLANDRY a chance!
Ad astra! Sean
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