"The sand-ice slid from above as fast as they could cast it down."
-Poul Anderson, "The Saturn Game" IN The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 3: The Saturn Game (NESFA Press, Framingham, MA, July 2010), pp. 10-50 AT 4, p. 43.
"The Saturn Game" belongs at the beginning of a volume. It is the first story in:
Explorations
The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume I, The Van Rijn Method
The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 3: The Saturn Game
- and would also be the first story in The Saturn Game and other stories which would be Volume V in an alternative publication order for the Technic History that was endlessly discussed earlier on this blog.
In our current rereading of "The Saturn Game," we have not quite reached the climax when the psychodrama has to end but it is getting late here. At this time of night, I either read a book borrowed from the Public Library or reread Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I checked my copy of NESFA Press' THE SATURN GAME at page 43 and I was that edition of "The Saturn Game" also has the correct "cast it down."
I have a copy of EXPLORATIONS (Tor, November 1981), and the version of "The Saturn Game" in it also has the incorrect "cast to down" on page 70.
It can be interesting noting errors in a text and comparing them to the correct readings.
Ad astra! Sean
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