The Snows of Ganymede by Poul Anderson is on pp. 10-57.
p. 28 is interrupted by an editorial note entitled Poul Anderson's Future History. This note explains that Robert Heinlein wrote a "future history" and so also does Anderson.
p. 29 is a chart of "...the first 250 years of Anderson's history..."
The chart shows:
"Un-Man"
"The Sensitive Man"
"The Big Rain"
"Quixote and the Windmill"
"Holmgang"
The Snows of Ganymede
- as unequivocal instalments of this future history.
As in Heinlein's Future History Time Chart, some stories that are still "To be written" are also included although in brackets. These are:
("Marius")
("House in the Sky")
("Wolf")
("Cold Victory")
Only the first and fourth of these four were eventually written.
The article on p. 28 also lists instalments that had already been written but that could not be shown on the abbreviated chart:
"The Troublemakers"
"Gypsy"
"Starship"
"The Star Ways"
"Entity"
"Symmetry"
The disputed "The Chapter Ends," although published in 1953, is not mentioned.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Welcome back from your Welsh holiday! I hope you and Mrs. Shackley had more than a good time.
A pity Anderson never wrote "House in the Sky" and "Wolf." I wonder if any preparatory notes about these stories might be found in his surviving papers?
I half expected "The Chapter Ends" to be included in this chronology pub. by STARTLING STORIES. The fact it was not leaves open the question of whether it belongs in the Psychotechnic series. I still believe it does not and reads like a stand-alone, one-off, non-series story.
Besides Anderson's name I could definitely make out the names of two other authors from the contents page: Robert [E or F] Young and Philip K. Dick. I have read some of Dick's works.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
We saw Cardiff and Swansea, interesting cities.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Mentioning Cardiff reminded me of John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute. This peer was a very interesting and unusual man--beginning in 1815 he took a keen and deep interest in the industrial and commercial growth of Cardiff and Wales. Despite being half blind and mostly living in Scotland. Bute was personally a massive factor in the growth of Cardiff and Welsh iron works and coal fields by the time he died in 1847.
Bute was exactly the kind of man healthy societies need: ambitious, imaginative, forward thinking, etc. Anson Guthrie and Nicholas van Rijn would approve of him.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
We heard of him while we were there.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
The Crichton-Stuarts remained interesting. The third marquess, born late in his father's life and also named after him, caused a tremendous "scandal" when he converted to the Catholic Church in 1867. He maintained his father's industrial/commercial interests and also became a generous philanthropist. One of his younger sons, Ninian Crichton-Stuart, became a popular Tory MP from Cardiff before being killed in action during WW I.
Ad astra! Sean
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