Futuristic SF

See Down In Flames by Larry Niven, an alternative perspective on Niven's Known Space future history.

On a bookshelf upstairs, I find old works of futuristic sf, including:

just about everything by Poul Anderson;

Olaf Stapledon's Last And First Men;

James Blish's Cities In Flight, The Seedling Stars and the diverse works that constitute his "Haertel Scholium";

Niven's Known Space volumes plus A World Out Of Time and The Integral Trees (there should be another volume entitled The Smoke Ring);

Robert Heinlein's five Future History volumes plus Double Star, The Door Into Summer and a surprising (to me) number of his Juveniles -

Time For The Stars

Starman Jones

The Star Beast

Podkayne Of Mars

There are others, of course, but these are the most notable, in my opinion.

The point is: do I currently want to reread and post about any of these works apart from Anderson's? Answer: not really for the time being. Although reading and sometimes rereading all of them was a major part of my life for a long time.

I am checking out the Prologue of The Integral Trees but might leave it at that.

It is all futuristic fiction whoever wrote it and whether or not it forms part of a future history series. I thought that Niven could have taken his "State" series, A World Out Of Time etc, a bit further.

We remain editorially fascinated by Anderson's main future history series.