Friday, 26 February 2021

"The Fatal Fulfillment" And "The White King's War"

I have started to read "The Fatal Fulfillment" but have not got into it yet but it does have a Biblical reference:

"Click, said God. And there was silence, and darkness was upon the face of the deep."
-Poul Anderson, "The Fatal Fulfillment" IN Anderson,  Door To Anywhere, pp. 324-358 AT PROLOGUE, p. 326.

I have also started to check "The White King's War" (Door Into Summer, pp. 168-200) for comparison with A Circus Of Hells , CHAPTERs FOUR-TEN. The short story is cleverly integrated into the novel. Of course:

"Lieutenant (j.g.) Dominic Flandry, Imperial Terrestrial Navy, sent his hands dancing over the pilot board." (p. 168)

- is reduced to:

"Flandry sent his hands dancing over the pilot board."
-Young Flandry, p. 221 -
 
- because Flandry does not need to be introduced to the reader. But that is more than enough for tonight.
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1 comment:

  1. Sean M. Brooks27 February 2021 at 08:18

    Kaor, Paul!

    I too read "The White King's War" with special interest, to see how it differed from or remained the same compared to A CIRCUS OF HELLS, where it was incorporated as the first part of the nove.

    DOOR TO ANYWHERE contained other stories I enjoyed rereading: "The Fatal Fulfillment" and "Strangers" being two examples. And "Deathwomb" was Anderson's contribution to Fred Saberhagen's Berserkers timeline.

    Ad astra! Sean

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