Multiverse: The Man Who Came Late
Holger's Personal Quest
Something Or Somebody
Inter-Cosmic Moralities
Finding Out For Sure?
When I said here that "...unfortunately, that is the last that we see of either Holger or Valeria...," I referred, of course, to works by Poul Anderson. We are all free to imagine sequels and even to write fanfic. Published authors are those who have been able to sell their imaginings.
Holger and Alianora do reappear in "The Man Who Came Late" by Harry Turtledove but each reader must judge whether he regards such a sequel as a valid addition to the canon. I am not sure about fully accepting any of the sequels in Multiverse, even the best of them, which is undoubtedly "A Slip In Time" by SM Stirling.
In the interests of thoroughness, I will shortly reread "The Man Who Came Late" to reassess where I think it fits in the fictional multiverse. After all, the multiverse concept enables us to consider alternative sequels as maybe happening in divergent timelines.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I criticized Turteldove's "The Man Who Came Late" today in some of those older blog pieces of yours. Mostly on the grounds that Turtledove's tale seems to contradict what we see about Holger Danske at the Old Phoenix Inn in A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST.
Another alternative to what you suggested about "sequels" to an author's story written by others is this: an author could begin a story but died before he was able to finish it. But, either he or his estate could arrange for another writer to complete the unfinished story. Would such a story count as a valid sequel?
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
I would have to read the story and make my own judgment. I don't even accept Heinlein's supposed continuations of his Future History as valid.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Good and reasonable points. Such an "authorized" sequel would have to FIT in with the background of the earlier story/stories before it could be accepted as valid.
Ad astra! Sean
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