Poul Anderson Appreciation

  Quick breakfast post before riverside walk to gym. Other reading generates posts although they are sometimes off at a tangent. Poul Anders...

Maybe I have spotted a minor literary parallel that no one else has. Everyone knows of parallels between Ian Fleming's James Bond and Po...

The Merman's Children , Book Two , I . Autumn approaches: some leaves are a paler green; others are brown, red or gold; the sky is wan; ...

A lot of us have probably had this kind of experience: church flower festival; cakes and teas; second-hand bookstall; paperbacks, including ...

A creative author writes different kinds of works but we also enjoy finding connections between them. Thus, we find a historical original of...

Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization is a definitive future history series. Anderson's Time Patrol series is a definitive...

The Merman's Children , Book Two , V .  The evening is chilly. The Kattegat glimmers into dusk. The shore darkens. Sunset reddens water,...

Nothing that hasn't been said before but fundamental to this blog: My two favourite kinds of sf are time travel and future histories. Po...

Pivotal changes happen in The Technic Civilization Saga , Volume III, Rise Of The Terran Empire ,   as its title indicates, but, in real his...

The Merman's Children , Book  Two , IV . "...bad luck struck down on misjudgment - unless everything was the will of Heaven......