James Blish, writing as William Atheling Jr., commented that:
this is a good prescription for science fiction because it is a good prescription for any fiction;
such a unitary approach is nowhere better exemplified than in Anderson's The Man Who Counts which Ace contemptuously re-entitled War Of The Wing Men.
We agree that The Man Who Counts is a good sf novel set on a Clementian extra-solar planet but do we also agree that it is a unitary novel in the sense described?
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Kaor, Paul!
While we see a lot about Old Nick's tastes in food and even women in THE MAN WHO COUNTS, I would not say it completely fits the "unitary" approach as defined by Anderson. As with most writers, you usually need to consider a large number of their of their works before arriving at such a view.
I think Anderson's four HARVEST OF STARS meets his definition of unifying science fiction. And I can think of others from his works.
Ad astra! Sean
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