Next, maybe, will be
"Snowball" and again I will not begin to read this previously unknown story at nearly 10:00 PM. These stories are so dissimilar to each other that starting to read a new one is a wrench. We have gone from an interstellar empire to Triton Station to now an Earth-based story. Each of these obscure stories has several cover illustrations.
There is a program on TV about Papal Conclaves. And we, editorially speaking, have begun to reread The Hound Of The Baskervilles. Christmas approaches but preparations are in hand.
And discussion of Poul Anderson's works remains endless but might slow down for a while.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI am not surprised many of these early stories by Anderson were so different from each other--he was a young writer trying out many different ideas and themes.
The history of Papal conclaves is long, often turbulent, and frequently marked by intrigue and skullduggery. And by lay powers often interfering with them, which last happened in 1903.
Reread "The Blue Carbuncle" and Matthew's infancy narrative.
Merry Christmas! Sean