SF, Thrillers, Philosophy And Comics

When you're a Poul Anderson Appreciation blogger, a week without a computer is an opportunity to:

draft posts to be published when back on-line;

catch up with other reading which often turns out to be relevant, e.g.:in the past week -

Hegelian philosophy;

Dornford Yates novels;

a visual chronicle of the first 75 years of DC Comics, where sf authors' names sometimes appear among comics writers'.

I trust that sf, pre-War thrillers, philosophy and comics are a sufficiently diverse reading list.

Sometimes it is as if all fiction and even all non-fiction is a single series. When a Dornford Yates character speaks of paying his debt to Morpheus, i.e., of catching up with missed sleep, he unknowingly refers to the title character of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman graphic novels. Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Frank Miller are the three comics writers whose works I have found worthy of comparison with Poul Anderson's prose fiction. And now I might get back to rereading some Yates.