Questions And Answers II

 

An alternative title for Planet Of No Return is Question And Answer. Since I knew this when composing the immediately preceding post, Questions And Answers, I might have mentioned the fact and also have illustrated the post with a Question And Answer cover illustration as here. However, when searching for images, I found the more attractive blue and white cover of Collected Works, Volume I, which I had never seen before so I used that instead. I have now found the red and yellow cover of Collected Works, Volume II, but there is not enough room for it on this post. I have ideas about how to present Anderson's collected works but they would not correspond to anyone else's. Imagine his three novels set BC, followed by the The King Of Ys Tetralogy, then the five Norse fantasies, then the The Last Viking Trilogy, then the three novels set in the fourteenth century and so on, in other words chronological order of fictional events as far as possible. In the twentieth century, there is a fantasy novel and a detective trilogy. There are also alternative histories and, of course, all the futures. The non-series short stories of various genres I would relegate to several volumes at the end of the collection instead of starting with any of them but this is just my peculiar point of view.