Saturday, 11 January 2020

Two Climaxes

The last two chapters of Poul Anderson's Ensign Flandry are two kinds of climaxes: an action climax and a personal climax. For the action climax, see:

Battle In Space Revisited.

The concluding chapter shows the consequences of these dramatic events for the characters and will be reread (by me, that is) tomorrow.

A Circus Of Hells directly continues the story by showing part of Flandry's training in Intelligence. We re-considered a few passages of A Circus... recently and might reread more soon but that is all for tonight.

It is possible to get right inside the Technic History and it becomes a different place.

4 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I agree Anderson could write stories that makes the readers feel like they are INSIDE those fictional worlds. Albeit, some critics dismiss Anderson's stories as merely "average" at best. I would disagree with them, in most cases, and ask them for examples of science fiction they considered better.

I get that same sense of "satisfactoriness" from other writers as well, such as Jerry Pournelle's Co-Dominium series (with contributions from other writers), or Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind stories.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

I have added two images to "A Singh In Space," which is linked from "Battle In Space Revisited."

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Thanks! I will take another look at that blog piece.

Ad astra! Sean

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And I noticed the picture of that Sikh soldier in attendance on the Queen in Leicester. And I noticed that middle aged British soldier in the red uniform as well (wearing the "Smoky Bear" hat). And the image of the "All Party Group For British Sikhs."

Ad astra! Sean