Poul Anderson, The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 1, (Riverdale, NY, October 2017). See here.
Neil Gaiman and Mark Buckingham, Miracleman: The Silver Age (New York, 2024). See attached image.
Differences
Prose fiction and graphic fiction.
(Usually prose books are considerably smaller than graphic works. However, in this case, the Anderson volume is outsized and nearly as big as the other.)
Similarities
Collections.
Colourful covers.
Set in the futures of alternative timelines.
Aliens.
Enhanced human beings.
Attempts to improve society.
Poul Anderson is an American sf writer. Miracleman, formerly Marvelman, began as a British superhero comic strip but is now published by Marvel and acknowledges its American origins.
I advise readers of fantastic fiction to enjoy both and I now definitely need a break from blogging.
My upcoming events to look forward to:
two restaurant birthday meals, one for an eight year old, the other for an eighty year old;
visits to the Gregson Institute, Andrea above the Old Pier Bookshop and the Buddhist monastery.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
It might indicate a lack in me, but I was never much attracted to graphic/manga style books. My tastes, as a boy, were shaped by a low brow fondness for comic books about Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck!
But at least two of Anderson's books were so profusely illustrated they come close to being graphic books. I mean the 1979 Ace Books editions of A STONE IN HEAVEN and THE DEMON OF SCATTERY (the latter co-authored by Anderson and Broxon). I appreciated how the artist who illustrated STONE first read the story before he started drawing--I loved how he depicted Flandry and Chives.
Ad astra! Sean
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