Fantastic Inns And The Earth Book

The Flying Inn by GK Chesterton is so old that Lancashire Libraries have one copy "on reserve" and it will take a couple of weeks for it to arrive here. It has some good cover illustrations. I requested this book because its title suggested that it might be about a fantastic inn comparable to Poul Anderson's Old Phoenix or Neil Gaiman's Inn of the Worlds' End. However, further research suggests that the novel is not about an inn let alone a flying one so that, when it does arrive, I might not be interested enough to read through it.

Meanwhile, it has occurred to me that the five volumes that precede Anderson's The Earth Book of Stormgate contain six stories and two novels about the Polesotechnic League and one novel about Ythrians whereas the Earth Book contains seven stories and one novel about the League and four stories about Ythrians so that this single volume is as substantial, or nearly so, as its five predecessors. As some blog readers might realize, I never tire of repeating how profound a future history series Anderson's History of Technic Civilization is.