"The Queen of Air and Darkness"
"Home"
"Our Many Roads to the Stars"
The Queen Of Air And Darkness And Other Stories begins with:
"The Queen of Air and Darkness"
"Home"
"Our Many Roads to the Stars" could be moved to a collection of Poul Anderson's short non-fiction works. "Home" could be removed from New America. "The Queen of Air and Darkness" could be removed from The Queen Of Air And Darkness And Other Stories which would therefore have to change its title.
If, in addition, "In The Shadow" were to be removed from Home And Other Stories (or whatever it came to be called), then this collection would comprise four short stories about STL interstellar travel, the first two referring to a Terrestrial government called the Directorate and the second two arguably not inconsistent with the first two. The fourth story, "Time Lag," constitutes a miniature future history in its own right.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I like that idea, moving Anderson's"Our Many Roads to the Stars" from NEW AMERICA to a collection of his shorter non-fictional works. In my article about Anderson's uncollected works I included in one section a list of his essays which had never or seldom been republished.* A thought I've had would be to go thru Anderson's novels and collections of short to get a listing of his essays which had been republished at least once since they were first printed in magazines or newspapers.
I think a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON would need two or three volumes for assembling his shorter non-fictional works.
Ad astra! Sean
*I am not entirely convinced the Andersonian bibliographies I've seen completely listed all of his non-fictional articles (or short stories, for that matter).
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