Friday, 19 June 2020

An Unnoticed Trilogy

Certain works by Poul Anderson could be repackaged and republished as follows:

A Multiversal Trilogy With A Two-Part Appendix
I. Three Hearts And Three Lions, the Carolingian universe.

II. Operation Otherworld, the goetic universe.

III. A Midsummer Tempest, the Shakespearean universe and an inter-universal meeting between inhabitants of the three universes.

Appendix: two short stories set in the inter-universal meeting place.

This sequence is comparable to Anderson's future histories and Time Patrol series and to the Andersons' King Of Ys Tetralogy.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I like that idea of how to arrange stories connected by the Old Phoenix. And THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS should include the prefatory comments given to a 2 chapter excerpt from that novel in GOING FOR INFINITY in a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON. Then a volume collecting the two OPERATION books. Next A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST with the two Old Phoenix stories as an appendix.

Ad astra! Sean