Saturday 12 December 2020

The Saturn Game And Other Stories

A proposed collection:

The Saturn Game And Other Stories
"The Saturn Game"
"The Star Plunderer"
"Sargasso of Lost Starships"

Reasons Why This Collection Should Be Read Immediately Before The People Of The Wind

"'My family was well-to-do, but they were - are - Jerusalem Catholics. Strict about certain things; archaistic, you might say.'"
-Poul Anderson, "The Saturn Game" IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, 2009), pp. 1-73 AT III, p. 30.

"...But no, a Jerusalem Catholic can't believe that. Biological evolution inclines, it does not compel."

"The Star Plunderer" is about Manuel Argos, Founder of the Terran Empire, and, in The People Of The Wind, Tabitha Falkayn refers to the growth of the Empire "'...since Manuel the First.'" (III, p. 468)

In "Sargasso of Lost Starships," the Terran Empire incorporates the planet Ansa and, in The People Of The Wind, the Empire has a Planet-class cruiser named Ansa. (IV, p. 477)

Future historical connections in every installment.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

One oddity I thought of just now from this mentioning of Jerusalem Catholics is that we don't see any PROTESTANTS in the Technic series, aside from the "Christian variants" mentioned as inhabiting Nyanza in "The Game of Glory." Catholics, Jews, Buddhists, yes, but not "evangelical" Protestants as such. What happened to those Protestants who deny evolution and insisted the Earth and the universe was only a few thousand years old?

Islam probably existed, both because some characters have Muslim seeming names and from it being mentioned in THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN, but not as a major factor. Are we to think Islam dwindled away to insignificance?

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

Anything is possible on all the planets of the Empire.

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

True, such as my mentioning of Nyanza. But, when I thought of it, it seemed odd, this lack of any mentioning of Protestants.

And not just in Anderson's Technic stories! Protestantism seems to have mostly disappeared after the Change in Stirling's Emberverse books. Altho some lingered even in the MacKenzie clandom. And Lutheranism apparently survived in Scandinavia. But we see mostly Catholics, Jews, Buddhists, and neo-Pagans.

Ad astra! Sean













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