There are other candidates. More details can be found by searching these blogs. I am inclined to favour Dennitza because of the Obala, the Kazan, Zorkagrad etc and also Avalon because of the details of choth life in Oronesia, Corona, Centauri etc. But there is endless space for comparisons and contrasts. We would like to visit or to live in some of these imagined places.
The Technic History presents not just one fictional world but many.
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Kaor, Paul!
We also get some striking, if too brief, glimpses of Terra during the Imperial era, esp. the descriptions of Admiralty Center and Archopolis in THE REBEL WORLDS, HUNTERS OF THE SKY CAVE, and A ST0NE IN HEAVEN (which also mentions how Flandry owned a small house and a few hectares of land in the High Sierra). I would also like to have seen more of the Coral Palace, seen in ENSIGN FLANDRY and A KNIGHT OF GHOSTS AND SHADOWS.
Ad astra! Sean
I think I would pick planets that are more interestingly *different* from Earth, but still fairly pleasant for humans to live on, though maybe only *some* humans would like living there.
Aeneas, Nyanza, Altai
Imhotep and Daedalus from Game of Empire.
The odd effects of refraction in Daedalus' atmosphere is a nice touch
Then outside of the Technic History
Rustum, Roland
Kaor, Jim!
I can see living on Aeneas and Nyanza (but the latter's sun might pose some risks for fair-complexioned persons). Altai might be worth visiting, except it's so COLD there.
The heavy gravity of Imhotep makes me hesitant about going there; but Daedalus would be fine.
Rustum timeline planets: Not at all sure I could handle the heavy gravity of Rustum, but I would be comfortable on Roland.
Ad astra! Sean
Kaor, Paul!
I think you could have added Unan Besar, from THE PLAGUE OF MASTERS to your list of very carefully worked out fictional planets by Anderson. And, as long as Biocontrol had been overthrown and the antitoxin needed for living there no longer so costly to obtain, pleasant to live on.
We both have long wished some of the Nicholas van Rijn and Dominic Flandry stories had gotten good and accurate filmed versions. The famous bar scene from the STAR WARS movies reminded me of this bit from Chapter II of HUNTERS OF THE SKY CAVE: "Then he [Flandry] took out a fresh cigarette and steered through lilting music toward the bar. He needed a drink, badly." A bit later: "Flandry elbowed past a Merseian, who had just downed a two-liter tankard. "Scotch," he said. "Straight, tall, and quick."
I like that scene seen at the Crystal Moon! Besides Merseians and humans, there might have been beings of other races there as well, such as Alfzarians, also getting drinks at that bar. If done well such an exotic bar scene would have been much more interesting than the one from the STAR WARS movies.
Ad astra! Sean
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