At the end of Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's Children, we want to read about Lazarus Long and Andy Libby searching the galaxy for colonizable planets. At the end of Poul Anderson's The Fleet Of Stars, we want to read about Anson Guthrie and Fenn regaining consciousness in newly grown organic bodies on Beta Hydri IV, Amaterasu. What a long way we have come since reading about an organic Guthrie on Amaterasu in Chapter I.
It is nearly midnight here, I have reread to the end of The Fleet Of Stars and have nothing more to add for now until some time tomorrow when our prescribed text will be Harvest Of Stars, Volume III, Harvest The Fire. Rereading the Tetralogy backwards is proving to be productive.
Let us hope that our world will still be here tomorrow morning.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
With some series I prefer to read them Vols. 1, 2, etc. E.g., with Anderson's THE KING OF YS, I would prefer to start with ROMA MATER, not THE DOG AND THE WOLF. Another example would be me preferring to start rereading Stirling's Draka book with the first volume: MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA.
It feels easier for me to read series stories "out of order" if they're parts of a long series containing both novels and short stories, such as Anderson's Technic tales.
Ad astra! Sean
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