tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post4180350660820960452..comments2024-03-29T07:40:01.805+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: An Unusual QuestionKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-31396005205335491612016-09-05T00:26:05.405+01:002016-09-05T00:26:05.405+01:00Kaor, Paul!
Tbanks! I'll be looking up Chapte...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Tbanks! I'll be looking up Chapter XII.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-27973771844880461572016-09-04T20:37:38.959+01:002016-09-04T20:37:38.959+01:00Sean,
Valeria says that in Chapter xii of A MIDSUM...Sean,<br />Valeria says that in Chapter xii of A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-81018550112864822932016-09-04T16:34:49.135+01:002016-09-04T16:34:49.135+01:00Kaor, Paul!
Darn! That raises a serious difficult...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Darn! That raises a serious difficulty. I assume you took Valeria's comments about multiple universes from one of the Old Phoenix interludes in A MIDSUMMER TEMPEST. But I still prefer the suggestion Poul Anderson gave in one of his letters to me (as I've tried to summarize in my first comment above). That is, the same historical (or otherwise) existed in the pasts of more than one universe before they had split off into different timelines.<br /><br />I would argue that it's possible Valeria is wrong. After all, we don't know how she knows the idea all universes were distinct from the beginning is true.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-72099877333980874822016-09-04T14:54:25.477+01:002016-09-04T14:54:25.477+01:00David,
Yes. See my last reply to Sean.
Paul.David,<br />Yes. See my last reply to Sean.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-46584907246466024322016-09-04T14:40:56.002+01:002016-09-04T14:40:56.002+01:00Paul:
I know Marvel and DC have done several stori...Paul:<br />I know Marvel and DC have done several stories in which their characters -- ALL of their characters -- are portrayed as existing in the same universe (I still own some of those issues). Spider-Man immediately recognizes who Superman is, or Wonder Woman, or Batman, and doesn't think he's fallen into a different universe. Neither do they think the reverse. <br /><br />The Captain America/Batman team-up was particularly interesting ... who would've imagined that the Joker is patriotic, and outraged to discover he's been working with the Red Skull? "I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!" (Self-awareness is such a wonderful thing.)David Birrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973889429164886381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-90597948554080414772016-09-04T14:11:17.044+01:002016-09-04T14:11:17.044+01:00Sean,
But Ariel would split when the universe did?...Sean,<br />But Ariel would split when the universe did?<br />Valeria says that the old Phoenix universes do not split off from each other. They were distinct from the beginning but the difference only became apparent recently. But I don't know how she knows this.<br />Another super-hero example: when Superman meets Spider-man, either one of them has crossed over to the other's universe or these are new versions of the characters co-existing in a third universe.<br />Unbelievable.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-29617669996306547892016-09-04T08:40:51.020+01:002016-09-04T08:40:51.020+01:00Kaor, Paul!
Or there might be only a SINGLE Ariel...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Or there might be only a SINGLE Ariel "native" to both the Shakespearean and Carolingian universes. That might have happened if both worlds were at one time a single world or timeline before some event or incident caused them to split apart. Since I think the Carolingian world is earlier than the Shakespearean, and Ariel lived in the former, he would be known and seen in the latter.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com