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.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
That interests me, mention of that COLLECTED WORKS of Anderson. Should I assume it's not Vol. 7 of NESFA Press's THE COLLECTED SHORT W0RKS OF POUL ANDERSON: QUESTION AND ANSWER?
I wish somebody would do the same to the uncollected stories/essays of Anderson, perhaps using my UNCOLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON as a guide. Which I should perhaps revise.
The stories Anderson set in the 14th century were ROGUE SWORD, THE MERMAN'S CHILDREN, and THE HIGH CRUSADE. I'm esp. fond of how I discovered a totally unexpected linkage shared by the first and third novels.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
If you google this new COLLECTED WORKS, you will see that it is not the NESFA one.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I did, and both volumes of these COLLECTED WORKS of Anderson disappointed me. These two volumes only collected selections of Anderson's stories. It doesn't look like the beginning of a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON, more a repetition, in paperback, of what NESFA has been doing.
There are complete collected editions of the works of Jack Vance and Robert Heinlein, the same should be done for Anderson! But the editorial work involved would be prodigious and be expensive. Oh, well.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: Amen.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I have wished a billionaire who reads SF, such as Elon Musk, would subsidize such a project. Not likely, I know, Musk having far more important things to do.
Ad astra! Sean
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