Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Pulling Everything Together, Maybe

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The previous post, Gods And War , referred to a battle between Dalesmen and Lann. For the Dalesman battle formation, see A Blunt Wedge . Fo...
Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Gods And Wars

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Vault Of The Ages , Chapter 9 . I have summarized Andersonian battle scenes on land, at sea or in space before. We have just read through an...

Just A Story

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Vault Of The Ages , Chapter 9 . Carl wonders whether the gods are not just a story. Tom thinks that: "' Someone must have made the ...

Giving Thanks

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Vault Of The Ages , Chapter 8 . In battle: "The Dalesmen were holding - the Dalesmen stood firm - oh, thank all gods!" (p. 84) The...

Twilight

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We posted once yesterday but on another blog, here . The Jade Emperor is the supreme deity in the Taoist pantheon. In Poul Anderson's Va...
Sunday, 29 June 2025

In The Near Future

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Let us look ahead, not for the next five hundred years, just for the next two weeks. Tomorrow will be 30 June and I will probably end this m...
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What Should The Lann Do?

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Vault Of The Ages , Chapter 7 . Lenard, captured son of the Chief of the Lann invaders, explains that his people - hunters, herders and smal...
Saturday, 28 June 2025

Shadowy Powers

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Vault Of The Ages , Chapter 7 . "...the gods..." have been mentioned since p. 21 but that becomes just a phrase, a part of the spo...

The Old Enemy

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Vault Of The Ages , Chapter 5 . After driving off a tiger with arrows, Carl mentally lists and reviews the enemies of men: tiger bear snake ...

Servants

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Vault Of The Ages , Chapter 5 . "'The Chief,' Ralph had said, 'is the first servant of the tribe.'" (p. 54) Jesus ...