HG Wells
Olaf Stapledon
Robert Heinlein
Shelley's Frankenstein and Anderson's Genesis ask whether it is right to create human beings.
Wells' The Time Machine influenced Anderson's Time Patrol series and other time travel works.
Anderson's Genesis and Tau Zero match the cosmic scope of Stapledon's Last And First Men and Star Maker.
Heinlein's Future History inspired Anderson's Psychotechnic History which was superseded by Anderson's Technic History.
Heinlein's Magic, Inc. inspired Anderson's Operation Chaos.
To recapitulate some earlier posts, a British Wellsian-Stapledonian future history is a fictional historical text book whereas an American Heinleinian future history is a series of short stories and novels set in successive historical periods. Brian Aldiss' Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand is a British, and Anderson's Genesis is an American, synthesis of the British and American models. Genesis is an ultimate sf novel that might never be surpassed by advancing technology.
What I am leading up to here is a consideration of Jules Verne and why I do not include him in the above list but I have limited time on-line until we have Broadband installed at home.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I agree, but I might have Kipling among those antecedents of Anderson. We see Kipling being quoted or alluded to in many of Anderson's stories. Such as THE ENEMY STARS, THE GAME OF EMPIRE, or in the Hoka stories co-authored with Dickson.
Ad astra! Sean
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