The Psychotechnic League
Time Patrol
Harvest Of Stars
- each the first volume of its series. How rich are Anderson's many series and other works.
Harvest Of Stars, mostly chase sequences, soars as transcendent speculative fiction only in its last few chapters but then that series takes off in Volumes II-IV.
Time Patrol is ten instalments of very variable lengths, lacking only the long tripartite novel, The Shield Of Time.
The Psychotechnic History takes off as a future history series only after Volume I.
This is a rare pre-meditation post. The order of the day for this normal Saturday is meditation, breakfast, activities in town and probably a quiet evening. The Northern Irish guests will visit the nearby Lake District today or tomorrow, weather permitting. Life continues to be good here but bad in many other places.
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Kaor, Paul!
These are the books on my bedside table:
MEDITATIONS, by Marcus Aurelius
MORGOTH'S RING, by JRR Tolkien, ed. Christopher Tolkien
CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY, by Robert Heinlein
THE OTHER NINETEENTH CENTURY, by Avram Davidson
I enjoyed HARVEST OF STARS, esp. because of those "chase sequences," as the download of Anson Guthrie combated the Avantists, followers of yet another nonsensical Utopian ideology. There have been so many catastrophic ideologies since the French Revolution!
Ad astra! Sean
Ad astra! Sean
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