Rereading Poul Anderson's "Flight to Forever," I have again reached the point at which Saunders and Belgotai, traveling futureward in the time projector, arrive at the hold of Brontothor in AD 50,000. This massive structure, a fascinating combination of the medieval and the futurological, is a classic pulp sf setting. Before posting about Brontothor, I check what has already been said on the blog and find that previous coverage has been comprehensive. See
here.
Meanwhile, in 2020, it is time for some lunch.
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Kaor, Paul!
Another example of one of Anderson's early works featuring florid, purple, or "pulpy" language would be the 1954 edition of THE BROKEN SWORD. As years passed Anderson's style had changed so much he became dissatisfied enough with that version of BROKEN that he rewrote or revised it, as we see in the 1971 edition of THE BROKEN SWORD.
I have copies of both versions of BROKEN, and it's interesting to sometimes look up and compare how Anderson wrote different versions of roughly the same passages. Stirling's view is that for an author to rewrite one of his own works does not often succeed. But Anderson's revision of BROKEN was one of those fairly rare successes (altho some critics prefer the 1954 edition over the 1971 version).
Ad astra! Sean
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