Thursday 17 August 2023

Poul Anderson And Frank Herbert

In Poul Anderson's Technic History:

the planet Aeneas resembles Frank Herbert's Dune that it is a dry, humanly colonized planet that is a potential flashpoint for an interstellar jihad;

the planets Satan and Mirkheim resemble Dune in that they are single sources of unprecedented wealth - except that Dune is more so (see the combox here).

Herbert's Dune series focuses on a single fictional planet whereas the Technic History presents:

Ythri
Avalon
Ivanhoe
Ikananka
Merseia
Satan
Mirkheim
Hermes
Dennitza
Chereion
Daedalus
Imhotep
Diomedes
Babur
Suleiman
Cain
Trillia
Gorzun
Starkad
Talwin
Wayland
Aeneas
Freehold
Alfzar
Brae
Nyanza
Vixen
Altai
Dido
Unan Besar
(not a complete list)

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Terra, Old Earth, should have been included as well in that list.

Ad astra! Sean