Sunday 11 October 2020

The Adventure Continues

 A time travel novel should show different periods on its cover and some do.

I think that I have exhausted Poul Anderson's "Flight to Forever" not for all time but for my current rereading of it but look how much is to be found in this deceptively simple pulp narrative. We have plumbed the depths of time, the cosmos and future civilizations. Next, I will reread three other time travel works by Anderson:

"Time Heals"
"The Man Who Came Early"
There Will Be Time
 
They feel like one long series despite their diverse premises and themes. From a single mental place, Poul Anderson's scientifically informed imagination, we set off in different directions. Characters are carried or projected through time or even traverse it by an act of will. The adventure continues.
 
 Addendum: Today, another visit to Levens Hall gardens. There is always more to see.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

One of the things I remember about the ironically named "Time Heals" is how pathetic that story was.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

Do you mean that it was a pathetically poor story or that it described a pathetic situation?

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Oops! I was unclear! I meant the situation described in the story was pathetic.

Poul Anderson wrote VERY FEW stories I would consider "pathetic" in the literary sense.

Ad astra! Sean