-Poul Anderson, "Outpost of Empire" IN Anderson, Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 1-72 AT p. 1.
"A wyvern flew up in a thunder of splendid wings."
-Poul Anderson, "The Faun" IN Anderson, The Queen Of Air And Darkness And Other Stories (London, 1977), pp. 86-90 AT p. 86.
What These Passages Have In Common
(ii) Each passage is the opening sentence of an sf story.
(iii) Each story is set on a humanly colonized extra-solar planet.
(iv) Each opening sentence implies fantasy, not sf.
(v) However, each story is in an sf collection.
Apart from all this, they are completely different.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I think most SF writers would have begun similar stories far more PROSAICALLY. Anderson preferred to use more colorfully metaphorical language. The opening paragraph of A CIRCUS OF HELLS is an example I thought of.
Ad astra! Sean
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