Ogier wielding Cortana rides out and scatters the hosts of Chaos...
Holger, naked, runs impossibly fast at the Germans, grabs one guy's gun and uses it as a club, thus covering the escape of a man whose contribution will affect the outcome of World War II...
The same war is fought in both worlds. The worlds and their wars are four-dimensional slices of one five-dimensional solid. They are like a single event recorded first in an epic poem, then in an animated film. If we hear the epic and see the film, then we notice the many differences more than the common theme.
In the concluding paragraph, Holger has disappeared:
"But meanwhile new storms are rising. It may be that we shall need Holger Danske again." (p. 156)
A possible sequel? There are sequels but not as we expect.
4 comments:
It's a pity there wasn't a series with Holger as the central character -- think of his adventures across the Multiverse, as outlined to Valeria in the Old Phoenix!
Alas, you can't always get a publisher to go along with a good idea. I'd have done a sequel to IN THE COURTS OF THE CRIMSON KINGS (which I privately regard as a candidate for "best Stirling book") if you could - ditto PESHAWAR LANCERS and CONQUISTADOR.
The best Stirling book, in my expert opinion, is either THE PESHAWAR LANCERS or CONQUISTADOR.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree, I would love to have seen a sequel to THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS by Anderson. Either he never got around to drafting it out or no publisher was interested. Pity!
Yes, again, I very much liked your own IN THE COURTS OF THE CRIMSON KINGS, and THE PESHAWAR LANCERS and CONQUISTADOR. Do you think there is any chance of you doing sequels to any of of these three books?
Ad astra! Sean
Kaor, Paul!
And Stirling's Draka books has to be the best DYSTOPIAN science fiction we have read. Pity disputes with a publisher has prevented UNTO US A CHILD from being published. I would have liked to know what happened after DRAKON.
Ad astra! Sean
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