Monday, 29 July 2024

Back In The Hotel Universe

In Mirkheim, III, Nicholas van Rijn of Solar Spice & Liquors, Hanny Lennart of Global Cybernetics and the Home Companies and Bayard Story of Galactic Developments and the Seven in Space meet in the Hotel Universe in Lunograd. We have already seen:

Adzel and Chee Lan in the Hotel Universe in Satan's World;

van Rijn and Lennart speaking by phone in the Prologue;

Story on Babur in the Prologue - although there he was called Benoni Strang;

van Rijn many times.

Poul Anderson has learned how to write a Heinleinian future history series: continuing characters in familiar settings but always also new developments.

Chronologically, this is the last appearance of the Polesotechnic League characters although we will later see them in earlier instalments if we read the Technic History in its original book publication order.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Solar Spice & Liquors was, IMO, the largest of the independent companies, fully the equal of any of the Home Companies and the Seven in Space. Which was why they had to deal with Old Nick.

Ad astra! Sean