tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post5528824857519128000..comments2024-03-28T23:42:09.625+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: "One of us will not leave this field."Ketlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-88540486754937734202017-04-18T15:27:49.070+01:002017-04-18T15:27:49.070+01:00Dear Mr. Stirling,
I only WISH I had thought of ...Dear Mr. Stirling, <br /><br />I only WISH I had thought of Brechdan Ironrede and Manse Everard when I first read these parts of A MEETING AT CORVALLIS. Very artistic, this unobtrusive use of Andersonian allusions.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-34686884746071556022017-04-18T08:43:00.852+01:002017-04-18T08:43:00.852+01:00We don't miss anything, Mr Stirling! (Alternat...We don't miss anything, Mr Stirling! (Alternatively: if we seem to have missed anything, please tell us.)<br />Paul.paulshackley2017@gmail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17704115766930975286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-4853859102092267752017-04-18T03:13:41.245+01:002017-04-18T03:13:41.245+01:00Ah, you noticed... 8-).Ah, you noticed... 8-).S.M. Stirlinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18091131550027851275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-72929519956801426552017-04-17T01:15:36.658+01:002017-04-17T01:15:36.658+01:00Kaor, Paul!
Commenting first on your last sentenc...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Commenting first on your last sentence. Jousting can be practiced as a sport or as deadly serious combat. In the former neither party is trying to kill each other despite it still being dangerous. Norman Arminger intended the latter.<br /><br />And I'm pretty sure S.M. Stirling hoped alert readers like you would think of Brechdan Ironrede and Manse Everard. I'm chagrined at missing these Andersonian allusions!<br /><br />I know it was just s slip, but the year mentioned in the second paragraph is not AD 2917! Hmmm, if this was the Technic timeline, we might have been reading Stirling's works in the third century of the Terran Empire!(Smiles)<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com