tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post2547442561987328402..comments2024-03-29T07:29:00.952+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Current Reading Agenda IIKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-66851486693090966692017-04-17T00:55:14.779+01:002017-04-17T00:55:14.779+01:00Kaor, Paul!
I'm almost sure it was Mr. Wright...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />I'm almost sure it was Mr. Wright who said in his blog years ago that he had written THE GOLDEN AGE trilogy in part as a homage to Poul Anderson. Then I in turn told you of this.<br /><br />Poul Anderson was at least agnostic for most of his life, which did not prevent him from respecting honest Christians, especially, it seems, Catholics. But I have wondered whether during his last years if PA had at least wished he believed in God. Certain late texts and works makes me think that was possible.<br /><br />I think the most Catholic of Poul Anderson's works are THE HIGH CRUSADE and THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS. I recall as well his sympathetic treatment of the Knights Hospitallers in ROGUE SWORD. And short stories like "The Word To Space," "The Problem Of Pain," and "The Season Of Forgiveness" also comes to mind. Technic Civilization novels like THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN and THE GAME OF EMPIRE presents us with serious treatments of philosophy and religion.<br /><br />I'm pretty sure S.M. Stirling is DEFINITELY agnostic, altho, like Anderson, he too was respectful of honest Christians. Mr. Stirling also seems to have thought it necessary to emphatically declare he was NOT a neo-pagan, despise his extensive use of that religion in his Change books.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com