This evening, I have revised and improved Comparing ERB. My new project is to reread and discuss the Jupiter stories by Poul Anderson, Clifford Simak, James Blish and ERB listed in that post.
"Call Me Joe" by Anderson is the title story of Volume 1 of the NESFA The Collected Short Works Of Poul Anderson series. I have a copy.
"Desertion" by Simak is in his future history volume, City. I shed my copy when downsizing but have ordered a replacement on eBay.
"Bridge" by Blish was incorporated into his Cities In Flight, Volume I, They Shall Have Stars, as the five evenly numbered chapters and the concluding eleventh chapter. I have this novel as a separate volume and in the Cities In Flight omnibus edition.
"Skeleton Men of Jupiter" by ERB is in John Carter Of Mars and I have a copy.
Anderson's and Blish's characters experience Jupiter remotely from Jupiter V. Anderson's and Simak's characters decide to live on Jupiter. Sometimes story ideas in sf overlap.
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Kaor, Paul!
We also see much of Jupiter in Anderson's novel THREE WORLDS TO CONQUER and in Chapters IV and V of HUNTERS OF THE SKY CAVE. I could also mention "Que Donn'rez Vous?", one of the Flying Mountains stories. And a Psychotechnic story, "Brake," should also be listed, for the role Jupiter plays in it.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Yes. These works have been discussed on the blog.
Paul.
Our knowledge of the other planets in this solar system has grown enormously over the past sixty years.
And our knowledge of exoplanets is exploding too -- and our solar system doesn't appear to be typical. Nothing is!
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
It sure is! Astronomers used to think that rocky planets orbit near their stars while gas giants orbited much further away. We know that nothing is typical.
Ad astra! Sean
Generalizing from a single instance.
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