Saturday, 10 October 2026

Other Reading Update

Each of us that reads Poul Anderson also reads other authors and each of us reads different authors. Thus, each of us appreciates Anderson in a different literary context. Am I alone in comparing Anderson to both Neil Gaiman and Stieg Larsson? - between whom there is no direct comparison. Will I reread Heinlein's The Door Into Summer in order to compare it to Andersonian time travel or will I no longer find Heinlein's text interesting?

I reread Larsson's Millennium Trilogy the way many others reread Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings Trilogy. My granddaughter buys me Alan Moore's prose fiction. I am quite unexpectedly finding Anderson's collections worth rereading. That is about it right now. Life contains several activities other than reading, of course.

Lancaster Music Festival update: local people marched through Market Square singing, the Community Choir; when musicians performed in a covered shopping precinct, the public danced spontaneously - the musicians thanked their audience for the dancing; walking past shops that are open for business, we hear live music from inside, including a band in a shop window.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I'm esp. fond of the short stories and novels of Russell Kirk, such as the collection THE PRINCESS OF ALL LANDS and his sardonic novel A CREATURE OF THE TWILIGHT.

I also like many of the short stories of Avram Davidson, esp. his stories featuring Dr. Engelbert Eszterhazy, set in the wonderfully named Triune Monarchy of Scythia-Pannonia-Transbalkania.

Ad astra! Sean