"'Where's the Sol-Belter?'...
"'In the belly of the whale... Still working in your office.'" (p. 256)
"In the belly of the whale..." counts as yet another Biblical reference especially since the Sol-Belter is called Jonah.
However, this is not an Andersonian Biblical reference. The Man-Kzin Wars series is more like an sf mag or a TV series - multi-authored, and the audience might remember the plots or themes of particular episodes without remembering their authors' names, although they are always credited here. See the above link.
So far, I have discussed Poul Anderson's MKW trilogy and have begun to discuss Jerry Pournelle's and SM Stirling's trilogy. If we go on to discuss other installments of the series, then it might be appropriate to move the discussion to the Science Fiction blog. However, blog readers come here, not there, so we will stay where we are.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I can understand how you could wish to discuss SF stories not by Poul Anderson in your SF blog. But, at least Pournelle, Stirling, Niven, Ing, etc., were friends and colleagues of Anderson--thus giving them an indirect connection to the PA Appreciation blog. So discussing some of their stories here won't be totally out of place.
And Jonah is a widely used figure, metaphor, analogy, etc., which can be found in many different genres. Albeit, I don't recall Anderson ever using it.
Ad astra! Sean
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