Poul Anderson's Three Major Series

Because of a cataract operation this afternoon, I have a shield over my right eye which must not be removed until tomorrow morning. Although this shield is transparent, it does interfere with reading so maybe I will make this the last post for today and hope to do more tomorrow.

Over a long period of time, I have posted a great deal about Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, far more than about any of his several other future history series.

I am fascinated by time travel, by its paradoxes and by Anderson's blend of time travel with historical fiction in his Time Patrol series.

A comparably substantial series is the The King Of Ys Tetralogy (with Karen Anderson).

These three series are:

a science fiction future history series;

historical science fiction with time travel as the sf element;

historical fiction with a fantasy element.

History is the common factor. The Terran Empire appears in the first of these series and the Roman Empire in the second and third.

In other reading, Goldfinger has a fascinating plan to raid Fort Knox.