Some Lancaster Life

Earlier today, we attended a series of talks on Richard Owen, not to be confused with Robert Owen. References to Victorian Britain, the British Museum and the Linnean Society reminded us, or at least me, of The Time Machine and thus, indirectly, of Poul Anderson's eminent successor to The Time Machine, the Time Patrol series. (It is particularly appropriate that, in 802,701 AD, the Time Traveller explores a museum, the Palace of Green Porcelain - he travels into the future and finds a record of the past -, which we recently mentioned in connection with the time vault in Anderson's Vault Of The Ages.)

This evening, in Williamson Park, Lancaster, we will attend a performance of The Wizard Of Oz. Philip Jose Farmer wrote a sequel but I am not aware of any Andersonian connection with Oz. 

This busy cultural life means less time for blogging today. I continue to reread Anderson's Brain Wave which has reached a somewhat pulpish section. Atomic rockets are stopped by a force field while a faster than light spaceship is being developed. In other sf rereading, we approach the end of Larry Niven's The Integral Trees, to be followed by its sequel, The Smoke Ring.

Into futurity.