I am rereading Poul Anderson's
The Psychotechnic League in the pocket-sized paperback edition that I bought when it was published in September 1981. It is in a used and faded condition. The contents deserve a much more appropriate presentation like in a larger hardback edition with high quality paper and maybe a detailed illustration at the beginning of each chapter. Then there could be graphic and screen adaptations which ideally would come across as Anderson's prose translated directly and without distortion into visual-verbal and audiovisual media. There would have to be a lot of sound effects for wind in a film of "The Big Rain." The characters talk about what Venus will be like after the Big Rain so we should also be shown what they describe and imagine.
This paperback does not do Anderson's stories justice.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I have a copy of this paperback myself, and it's at least better than nothing when it was pub.
I esp. long for accurate screened versions of some of the Nicholas van Rijn and Dominic Flandry stories.
The profusely illustrated Ace Books edition of A STONE IN HEAVEN comes close to making that a graphic book. And THE DEMON OF SCATTERY as well.
Ad astra! Sean
A good hardcover would be nice, but unless the faults in the text are utterly obtrusive, they don't much affect the way I read fiction.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Well, I like to have good quality hard back copies of the works of my most favored writers.
Ad astra! Sean
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