Diverse Narratives And The Danube

(Danube Street, Liverpool.)

Today, in different four-dimensional spaces within my N-dimensional imaginarium:

The Saxtorphs must rescue Peter Nordbo from an accelerating STL spaceship;

Red Riding Hood or a spy disguised as her has arrived in Fabletown;

Henrik Vanger is persuading Mikael Blomkvist to investigate the disappearance of Harriet Vanger;

bizarre events occur in Liverpool in Chase The Morning.

This fictional Liverpool has both a Tampere Street and a Danube Street. For the Danube in Poul Anderson's works, see here. (Scroll down.) Chase The Morning addresses a familiar Andersonian theme:

"It came crazily into my head how for the ancient Romans the Danube was a barrier of civilization, holding barbarism at bay; but it was not a comforting thought, for at the end that barbarism had come rolling across the Danube in an overwhelming wave."
-CHAPTER ONE, p. 20.