Anderson also wrote an ultimate cosmological sf novel, Tau Zero, and an ultimate speculation about AI in the cosmos, Genesis, so his works include several culminations of the science fiction tradition initiated by Mary Shelley. They may be the ultimate culminations. Will our civilization last long enough to produce any more? Or will global disaster be the sf idea that becomes real? We face the same issues as many fictional characters.
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Kaor, Paul!
I agree with what you said about Anderson's Technic Civilization and Time Patrol series. I think Jerry Pournelle's Co-Dominium stories comes closest in quality to Anderson's Technic tales.
But, simply in its QUALITY, at least, I think STARFARERS and GENESIS are better than TAU ZERO. I recall Anderson himself commenting he wished he had taken longer writing TZ.
Ad astra! Sean
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