Thursday, 21 August 2025

Connections

The previous post directly linked The Merman's Children back to The Broken Sword which is one of Poul Anderson's five Norse fantasies:

The Broken Sword
Hrolf Kraki's Saga
The Demon Of Scattery
War Of The Gods
Mother Of Kings

The Merman's Children is one of three novels by Poul Anderson set in the fourteenth century:

Rogue Sword
The Merman's Children
The High Crusade

Sean M. Brooks found an unexpected connection between Rogue Sword and The High Crusade.

The five Norse novels are separated chronologically only by Anderson's The Last Viking Trilogy:

The Golden Horn
The Road of the Sea Horse
The Sign of the Raven

- which is preceded by Poul and Karen Anderson's The King of Ys Tetralogy:

Roma Mater
Gallicenae
Dahut
The Dog and The Wolf

- which in turn is preceded only by Poul Anderson's three novels set B.C.:

Conan The Rebel
The Dancer From Atlantis
The Golden Slave

Every time that I try to summarize a part of Anderson's past fiction, I wind up summarizing all of it.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Considering how different ROGUE SWORD and THE HIGH CRUSADE are compared to each other, that connection I found was very unexpected.

Ad astra! Sean