Variety

It is too late at night to reread the dense text of the next chapter of Poul Anderson's historical novel, The Golden Slave. However, there is time to appreciate the variety of Anderson's works. In the past twenty four hours alone, we have discussed:

the history and geography of the ancient world;

the relationships between history and mythology and between different mythologies;

ancient and modern theology;

philosophical questions underlying theology;

the fictional cosmologies of two sf novels by Anderson, Tau Zero and Genesis;

the relationship between science and science fiction as shown in the works of Wells, Anderson and others;

passages in Anderson's Time Patrol series.

That in no way exhausts the diversity of Anderson's works but does more or less summarize what has come up since yesterday evening.