Thursday, 13 June 2024

Series That We Never Read

The post title, "Series That We Never Read," is ambiguous. Is "Read" past or present tense? Does it rhyme with "red" or with "reed"? It could be either.

Andrea and I watched an on-line "director's cut" of a film that ended with a preview of a film that was never made and therefore is non-canonical within that film series/movieverse! Think of all the "might-have-been"s. 

I would like to see Poul Anderson's Technic History continued indefinitely. This can happen only in a hypothetical hereafter where Anderson continues to write. (The probability of this is only just above zero.)

(i) Narratives showing twentieth and early twenty-first century events as leading toward Technic civilization.

(ii) Articles by Chunderban Desai or by a member of the later Galactic Archaeological Society drawing attention to parallels between the Roman and Terran Empires.

(iii) The Chaos on Earth.

(iv) As part of (iii), something about how the Jerusalem Catholic Church emerged.

(v) The exploration of other planets in the Solar System.

(vi) The emergence of Technic civilization, of the Solar Commonwealth and of Anglic as a successor to English.

(vii) The invention of the hyperdrive.

(viii) The Breakup.

(ix) Early days on extra-solar colonies.

(x) Young van Rijn.

(xi) Coya in the trader team.

(xii) The team that Chee Lan joins later.

(xiii) More about early days on Avalon.

(xiv) Van Rijn's last voyage.

(xv) Diana Crowfeather and friends.

(xvi) Later adventures of Aycharaych.

(xvii) Roan Tom.

(xviii) Allied Planets incorporation of isolated colonies.

(xix) Rangers of the Commonalty.

(xx) The civilizations in the Commonalty period.

(xxi) Van Rijn and other Technic History characters in the Old Phoenix. (Not to be allowed to impact on the History.)

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I believe existence after death to be far more likely than just above zero.

I would have been satisfied if Anderson had written two or three more Technic stories, including one set in the youth of Nicholas van Rijn. I do sympathize with Anderson's conviction it was time to move on to other ideas and themes after THE GAME OF EMPIRE.

Ad astra! Sean