tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post4858998085210733205..comments2024-03-29T07:29:00.952+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: "Flight to Forever"Ketlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-49140400232626867402017-07-27T07:56:02.199+01:002017-07-27T07:56:02.199+01:00Kaor, DAVID and Mr. Stirling!
David: drat, I neve...Kaor, DAVID and Mr. Stirling!<br /><br />David: drat, I never seem to think of such cool and apt quotes from Anderson's works. Nice!<br /><br />Mr. Stirling, I agree! And, in one my essays I divided his works into early, middle, and late phases. And we see the strength and power of his mature works amply prefigured in his early phase.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-11610473863048621522017-07-27T07:48:19.553+01:002017-07-27T07:48:19.553+01:00Agreed.Agreed.paulshackley2017@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704115766930975286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-30144554369058909442017-07-27T01:41:47.022+01:002017-07-27T01:41:47.022+01:00Reading Poul's early stuff is interesting from...Reading Poul's early stuff is interesting from a technical point of view -- you see his inherent strengths and how he refined them with technique.S.M. Stirlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091131550027851275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-16628777889136486062017-07-26T18:17:01.730+01:002017-07-26T18:17:01.730+01:00Paul:
Though not directly relevant, your second an...Paul:<br />Though not directly relevant, your second and third quotes reminded me of this, from *The Rebel of Rhada* by Robert Cham Gilman (Alfred Coppel):<br />"Across the deepening night a meteor flashed with brief intensity. It seemed to Kier that it was like the life of a man against the night of history. And if it seemed brief and to no purpose, at least it burned brightly and gave a touch of light to the dark."<br /><br />Anderson, in *The Broken Sword*, likewise compared human life to a meteor: "Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness which can see naught above or beyond itself."David Birrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08973889429164886381noreply@blogger.com