From Anderson To Heinlein And Back

In Wars Of Religion, we began with Poul Anderson's Three Hearts And Three Lions and wound up unexpectedly with Robert Heinlein's Future History, the link being wars of religion. If we had stayed with that line of thought, then we might have immediately returned to Anderson because:

Anderson modelled his first future history series, the Psychotechnic History, on Heinlein's Future History;

Anderson's major future history series, the History of Technic Civilization, became a larger scale Heinleinian series;

the Psychotechnic History presents a Cosmic religion, about which we are told virtually nothing, whereas the Technic History addresses religious issues in several instalments;

in The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume VII, Fr Axor seeks the Universal Incarnation and the Gwydiona develop an elaborate symbolical mythology to conceal from themselves their periodic psychosis and violence.

All human life is there.