the History of Technic Civilization;
other future history series;
the Time Patrol series;
other works on time travel.
Thus, he excels in quantity and also, fortunately, in quality. On this blog, we have just finished discussing his Genesis, a single volume future history that could have been marketed as a series.
When it comes to comparing future history series, some readers might prefer Larry Niven's Known Space. When I first read Known Space, it comprised three collections and four novels, culminating in Ringworld. Now there are, in addition to the first six volumes, including updates of two of the collections:
a Man-Kzin Wars sub-series;
a Fleet of Worlds Tetralogy (with Edward M. Lerner);
a Ringworld Tetralogy;
a joint sequel to both tetralogies, Fate Of Worlds: Return From The Ringworld (with Edward M. Lerner).
Since Poul Anderson wrote three Man-Kzin Wars stories, there is an overlap between Anderson's complete works and Known Space.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Aside from Anderson's Technic Civlization stories, Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind series also pleased me (altho I'm aware it's not quite to your taste). And I've Jerry Pournelle's Co-Dominium tales to be the most pleasing. As we both know, the Co-Do timeline includes co-author and contributors such as Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, S.M. Stirling, et al.
But I was sorry to find out I could read with pleasure Larry Niven's more recent works. They did not please as much as had his earlier stories and the ones he co-authored with Jerry Pournelle.
Ad astra! Sean
Drat. I omitted from the first sentence of the second paragraph an important word: "I was sorry to find out I could NOT read with pleasure Larry Niven's more recent works."
Sean
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