Time Patrolman Carl Farness interacts with four generations of a single Goth family from 300 to 372.
Emil Dalmady is a young man on his first job for Solar Spice & Liquors when he confronts Nicholas van Rijn in "Esau" but Emil's daughter, Judith, is in her high old age when she writes a fictionalized account of a teenage adventure of Nat Falkayn, son of Nicholas Falkayn who is a son of David and Coya Falkayn and thus a great-great-grandson of Nicholas van Rijn. Tabitha Falkayn is their descendant although we do not know by how many generations.
We ought to be grateful to Roger Elwood for editing original anthologies that resulted in Poul Anderson enhancing his Technic History with the juvenile adventures, "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" and "Wingless," the latter about Nat Falkayn.
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Kaor, Paul!
Anderson also wrote letters, esp. to fans who appreciated his works and wrote politely to him while offering their comments and suggestions. I wrote 24 snail mail letters to him and got replies to every single one of my sometimes far too long letters. And I think you wrote a similar number letters to Anderson, and got replies to all of them.
Editors of a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON should make efforts to track down and collect such letters, preferably including the correspondence Anderson was responding to.
While not as prolific a letter writer as JRR Tolkien, who loved hearing from his readers, there should still be a fair number of Anderson's letters "out there."
Hope this uploads.
Ad astra! Sean
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