Sunday, 15 March 2020

Previous Posts And The Combox

My pleasure in rereading Poul Anderson's Technic History is immensely enhanced by blogging about it and, in order to blog about it, I reread it even more so that this has become a self-perpetuating processes and I will find out whether it has any limits. Some blog readers might check the blog less often when they notice that there is a continued focus on a single series but there will also continue to be posts on other subjects on an unpredictable schedule.

I also reread with interest previous posts on the fictional planet, t'Kela, including the combox discussions which include mini-essays by sf writer, SM Stirling, on human evolution and diet. All this discussion is made possible by Poul Anderson's dense texts. I could not have imagined it! My current agenda is to continue rereading "Territory" after first rereading all the previous t'Kela-related posts and that, in turn, will happen after a long Sunday walk along Lancaster canal.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And I absolutely agree with you in appreciating S.M. Stirling's mini essays that he so generously gives us from time to time! And I finally got a copy of his new book SHADOWS OF ANNIHILATION last night, which I plan to start reading after I finish THE SWORD, fifth of THE GENERAL books he co-authored with Drake.

I know military science fiction is not wholly to your taste, for fairly obvious reasons, such as how gruesome war is, but I enjoy it when done well. I think the late Jerry Pournelle popularized that branch of science fiction AND set high standards for it in the THERE WILL BE WAR series of stories by different authors that he edited. A series including non fictional articles as well as stories.

And Poul Anderson wrote his share of military oriented science fiction, such as "High Treason," No Truce With Kings," "Kings Who Die," etc. And serious thinking about war in THERMONUCLEAR WARFARE.

Ad astra! Sean