I mention this because, in James Blish's A Case Of Conscience, a young woman called Dr. Liu Meid is a leading xenozoologist. Authors have not yet settled down on a single terminology. Anderson and Blish wrote the same kind of sf but Anderson wrote a lot more of it which is why this blog is mainly about him.
As I blog, Dr. Alice Roberts on the Digging For Britain TV series covers the periods of Norse and Anglo-Saxon settlements in Britain which we read about in Poul Anderson's fiction.
From the past through the present into the future.
In the historic Merchants pub, a Greek comrade asked a member of staff whether he was Italian but he turned out to be Portugese. I remarked that Lancaster is an international city - as well as historical. We welcome diversity and hope for more in the future, as in Anderson's "How To Be Ethnic..."
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I know you are a big fan of Blish's works, but I can't help but wonder how lasting they will be. Not that many years ago I tried to reread his Cities in Flight books, and lost interest in them after the first one or two volumes. They simply no longer "grabbed me" as they had when I was a boy.
Ad astra! Sean
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