time travel
space travel
alien invasion
future history
invisibility
telepathy
teleportation
immortality
robots
a science of society
generation ships
Perhaps invisibility is the only one of these themes not addressed by Poul Anderson?
Another theme neither on this list nor addressed by Anderson is miniaturization:
Ant-Man (Marvel superhero)
The Atom (DC superhero)
In "Nor Iron Bars" by James Blish, an interstellar spaceship gains negative mass and collapses into the microcosm.
In The Great Divorce by CS Lewis, characters travel by changing size but this is a metaphor for spiritual progress or regression.
1 comment:
Kaor, P:aul!
Except in a very broad sense I don't recall miniaturization being used by Anderson. That is, technological advances made many devices that were originally huge and cumbersome smaller and smaller. E.g., see the advanced space ship used by the trader team in "Day of Burning" vis a vis the more primitive Merseian ships.
Ad astra! Sean
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