The Wikipedia Poul Anderson bibliography lists:
Hoka (with Gordon R. Dickson)
The Psychotechnic League (which I call the Psychotechnic History)
Tomorrow's Children, collected as Twilight World
The Technic History
Time Patrol
History of Rustum
Maurai and Kith (giving the wrong impression that these are one series)
Harvest of Stars
The King of Ys (with Karen Anderson)
Operation Otherworld
The Last Viking
The Trygve Yamamura Trilogy (not named as such)
This bibliography lists Tales Of The Flying Mountains as a collection although not as a collected series.
It does not mention:
connections between Three Hearts And Three Lions, A Midsummer Tempest, Operation Otherworld and two "Old Phoenix" short stories;
the three Wing Alak stories;
a few other connections between works.
For earlier posts on series, see here.
11 comments:
Well, if you create a world/universe, you're probably going to put more than one story in it.
Thank you, Anonymous.
Damn, that was me, Steve Stirling.
I did think that it was Stirlingesque.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
One thing I've noticed, reading your works, is that you prefer novel length "stories" in your series. I mean you apparently favor book length stories, while Anderson often wrote both short stories and novels set in series with the same background. It's relatively rare for you to write similarly--one exception being how "Shikari in Galveston" was set in the same time-line as THE PESHAWAR LANCERS.
Ad astra! Sean
Yeah, I'm a novelist by preference. Poul started out when short stories were what you needed to write -- and then short novels.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Anderson was a master at writing short stories and novels, because that was what publishers and editors in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s demanded. But he wrote some fairly long novels even in the 1950s: VAULT OF THE AGES, THE BROKEN SWORD, and BRAIN WAVE.
i love Anderson's "short" novels because he was able to pack so much into books about 125/130 to 160 pages long. By the late 1970s--page limits had loosened enough that he was able to start publishing longer novels.
Ad astra! Sean
I wrote my first novel on a manual typewriter. Believe me, that reduced the word-count! That was when "cut and paste" -literally- meant "cut and paste".
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I do believe you! And before typewriters were invented in the 1880s, writers had to literally write their stories longhand, unless they were able to dictate to secretaries.
Anderson commented in one letter that he was so used to his electric typewriter that he felt little or no need to switch to word processors. Before then, he must have used manuals.
Computerized world processing allows you to write a story as long as it needs to be and makes it much easier to correct/revise.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: it does make revision much easier, which speeds up writing. You put down what comes into your head, and then revise.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Exactly, I'm glad that works so well for you.
Ad astra! Sean
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