Multiple cosmology in The Avatar.
Quantum cosmogony in Starfarers.
A fifth force of nature maybe explaining cosmic expansion acceleration...? (May the fifth force be with you.)
Poul Anderson would have been able to fictionalize the fifth force but, before anyone can address such a force in fiction, it must first be confirmed and clarified. In literary terms, nothing dates faster than the cutting edge of the sciences.
How versatile is sf? -
dramatized scientific cosmologies;
speculative aliens like the Ythrians;
space opera villains like Scothans and Merseians;
more serious treatment of Merseians in later episodes;
many individual characters of different species.
Scotha will become a confederation of nations with Gunli as queen and a Terran resident. Yet again, we want to read a sequel and I don't mean the one in Multiverse.
Compare James Blish:
in The Quincunx Of Time, messages from the future assume different and mutually incompatible scientific paradigms;
in Cities In Flight, would Okie cities propelled by anti-gravity "spindizzies" have been able to enter black holes?
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Kaor, Paul!
Even during his final years, as Anderson entered old age (altho I wished he could have lived another ten years), he retained his creative powers in such force and strength that I needed to read the HARVEST OF STARS books, STARFARERS, GENESIS, more than once before I could properly appreciate them. Which makes me wonder how he would have used the changes and advances seen in astronomy and cosmology, circa 2001-2011.
I agree in desiring a much better "sequel" to "Tiger By The Tail" than the one we got in MULTIVERSE.
I don't think Okie cities could have safely entered black holes. The huge gravitic pressures would most likely have torn them apart.
Ad astra! Sean
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