Monday 3 August 2020

Multiverse: Contents

Greg Bear and Gardner Dozois, Eds, Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds (Subterranean Press, Burton, MI, 2014).

Sequels to:
The Queen Of Air And Darkness: 2
Three Hearts And Three Lions: 2
Dominic Flandry: 2
The Time Patrol: 3
Operation Chaos: 1
"The Long Remembering": 1

Other Works
David Brin, "Latecomers" ("Lungfish," rewritten on advice from Anderson)

Gregory Benford, "Bloodpride" (incorporating Ythrians)

Appreciations of Poul Anderson by:
Greg Bear
Karen Anderson
Astrid Anderson Bear
Jerry Pournelle

Multiverse II?

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I have to admit there was quite a lot in MULTIVERSE I found myself not much caring. I was esp. displeased by the "sequels" to "The Queen of Air and Darkness." I do agree the two young human characters in "Queen" would have difficulty adapting (after having been raised by aliens) to other humans, and a human civilization. But the note of disparagement for humans and their civilization I saw in those sequels is not something I believe Anderson would have agreed with.

You already know I consider Feist's Technic contribution to be the better of the two "Technic" stories in the book. I did wonder why no one had tried to write a Nicholas van Rijn pastiche. Silly question: "doing" Old Nick well would have been esp. HARD.

And I do hope we see a second MULTIVERSE. Including the kind of Dominic Flandry story Stirling has sometimes talked of writing if the chance ever came. And I hope that MULTIVERSE II would include a few essay of commentary, such as your best article about the Time Patrol.

Ad astra! Sean