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I have just had that familiar and annoying experience of not finding a book, in this case Genesis by Poul Anderson, where it should have been on a bookshelf. However, I have also just ordered a cheap replacement copy online. It is expected by 12 Feb. I want to quote and compare certain passages in Genesis (I think) and in the same author's The Boat Of A Million Years and There Will Be Time. I might start on this before Genesis arrives although I will then, of course, have to locate the passage that I am thinking of in that book. 

While looking for Genesis, I found Isaac's Universe, Volume Two, which contains Anderson's "Woodcraft." Is this one of the two Andersonian Isaac's Universe stories that Anderson adapted and incorporated into his For Love And Glory? I will read or reread this story at least until I have confirmed that it is familiar.

When farmer John gave me a lift home after the sf group, I found on his dashboard something that I had never previously seen or held, a paperback copy of The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology. See the attached image. This anthology presented Anderson's "Lodestar." As I explained to John, this is a pivotal story of Anderson's main future history series and I have read it in that context, not in its original anthologization.