"'Beautiful job on the false idents, by the way. If we hadn't been tipped we'd never have found them.'"
-Chapter V, p. 271.
Who tipped the Munchen Police about the two infiltrators from Sol? (If the answer is that it is clear in the text, then I will just have to reread earlier passages.)
The Police Chief has a Matisse, two Vorenagles (?) "...and a priceless Pierneef..." (Chapter III, p. 226)
When Jonah and Ingrid meet a Yakuza contact, the word, "tekkamaki," is used as a password. The Yakuza guy considers it a joke to refer to Markham as "'...our esteemed GVB...,'" which he explains as "'Gotz von Blerichgen...'" (p. 219)
It takes a while for the Man-Kzin Wars series to open out to a wider variety of authors:
The Man-Kzin Wars
Niven
Anderson
Ing
Man-Kzin Wars II
Ing
Pournelle & Stirling
Man-Kzin Wars III
Niven
Pournelle & Stirling
Anderson
I have yet to receive my copy of IV.
The Wikipedia article presents a longer list of authors for later volumes. I expect at last to read more of this series. Morecambe Library has reopened, with reduced hours, for the Lancaster District so I might be able to borrow some of those Worlds books. I continue to think that Poul Anderson's Technic History excels as a future history series. Larry Niven's Known Space History, like Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium History, differs from Anderson's in having more installments written or co-written by other authors. I have been drawn back into Known Space by Anderson's contributions and am currently appreciating its MKW period.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI suspect the "Vorenagles" appreciated by the Police Chief of Munchen is meant to represent a fictional artist native to Wunderland.
I'm glad you are mostly enjoying the Man/Kzin Wars stories. Apparently you found many of them to be more substantial than you had expected.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
ReplyDeleteIndeed but so far I am only rereading the trilogies by Anderson and Pournelle & Stirling. Next is Ing.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteGood, I'm glad. I think Ing wrote "Cathouse," and if my memory is correct, that was an esp. interesting Man/Kzin Wars story.
Ad astra! Sean