SF Series And Another Cold

In my misery, I have been googling some British juvenile sf writers:

Angus MacVicar

WE Johns

Hugh Walters

There was a kind of sf series that would - I am generalizing here - start with a trip into space, typically but not always to the Moon, then catalogue the Solar System, then maybe go interstellar. Robert Heinlein's Scribner Juveniles fit into this pattern which we can describe as pre-Anderson. When Poul Anderson wrote, exploring the Solar System was no longer an issue. His Technic History starts with one story about the exploration of the outer Solar System and that was tacked on very late. After that, there are two stories about interstellar exploration.

Anderson's first future history series begins, cleverly I thought, not with "first men on the Moon" but in post-World War III Europe which reads like post-World War II but worse. Mankind will soar but first will have to recover - which will happen remarkably quickly.

(Andrea has just rung to say that he has a cold and to postpone my visit for a week.)