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Poul Anderson Appreciation: Oscar Wilde
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Sunday, 16 August 2015. Writers sometimes have fun imagining what a real person would say in a fictional situation. Poul Anderson gives us several historical figures but maybe not any recent or contemporary celebrities? Brian Aldiss fictionally quoted Aldous Huxley in an early novel. William Clinton spoke at Superman's funeral because he was President of the United States in 1993. Earlier, Supes had conversed with Ronald Reagan. Wilde responds, "Heavens, no! Can't stand the man! New York, 1991), p. 71.
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Poul Anderson Appreciation: Time Travel And Alternative Histories
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Saturday, 15 August 2015. Time Travel And Alternative Histories. Imagine a Venn diagram. Comprising two overlapping circles. Circle 1 represents time travel fiction whereas Circle 2 represents alternative history fiction:. Inside Circle 1 but outside the area of overlap are (among many other works) Poul Anderson's The Corridors Of Time. However, all the alternative histories discussed so far contrast with three others presented by Anderson:. In Three Hearts And Three Lions. A man travels from our twentie...
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Poul Anderson Appreciation: Ancient Persia
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Friday, 14 August 2015. Ancient Persia was another world but not beyond Poul Anderson's power to take us there. The Great King had given so much law to his dominions that it was said a virgin with a sack of gold could walk unmolested across all Persia." ( Time Patrol. Cilicia would yield without a fight, seeing that Persia's other conquests were governed with a humanity and a tolerance of local customs such as the world had not known before." (p. 66). Alms, Lord. Alms, for the love of Light! Thank you fo...
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Poul Anderson Appreciation: Time Patrol Training
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Friday, 14 August 2015. At the Time Patrol Academy in the Oligocene:. The first part of instruction was physical and psychological. Everard had never realized how his own life had crippled him, in body and mind; he was only half the man he could be. It came hard, but in the end it was a joy to feel the utterly controlled power of muscles, the emotions which had grown deeper for being disciplined, the swiftness and precision of conscious thought." ( Time Patrol. Near the end of The Shape Of Things To Come.
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Poul Anderson Appreciation: Sherlock Holmes And The Time Patrol
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Friday, 14 August 2015. Sherlock Holmes And The Time Patrol. When Manse Everard reflects that Rudyard Kipling is still writing, he does not also mention Arthur Conan Doyle because the Time Patrol timeline has Dr John Watson instead! The private agent smiled sourly and watched [two disguised Time Patrolmen] with a narrow eye as they approached the mound; he was tall, thin, hawkfaced, and accompanied by a burly, mustached fellow with a limp who seemed a kind of amanuensis." ( Time. Sean M. Brooks. I admire...
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Poul Anderson Appreciation: Autumn Wind
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Friday, 14 August 2015. In "Brave To Be A King," Manse Everard tells Cynthia Denison to:. Cut out that shimmy. Having googled this word, I am still not sure what he meant by it. The proverbially rich Croesus tells Everard that Cyrus' life was threatened in infancy but that he was hidden and grew up as a herdsman until he could come forth, attested by signs. After hearing this:. The cold autumn wind. Underlines the mystery of what he has heard. He must ask:. This is true, and no fanciful gossip? My two di...
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Poul Anderson Appreciation: Draka Food
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Tuesday, 18 August 2015. A short while ago, this blog developed an extended food. Thread. Apparently, SM Stirling's Draka also eat well although only one meal has been described so far in Marching Through Georgia. At Oakenwald, home of the von Shrakenbergs, servants present:. Grilled meats on wooden platters;. American correspondent William Dreiser, ".buttering a scone.," found that:. When Dreiser's host ".raised his cup slightly.":. Hands appeared to fill it, add cream and sugar." (ibid. Life In 209 BC.
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Poul Anderson Appreciation: Angles
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Tuesday, 18 August 2015. Life is busy so posts are slow. Is that good or bad? Also, I currently lack an angle for posting. Recent angles were:. Fictional treatments of war;. Degrees of divergence between alternative histories. I am enjoying SM Stirling's Marching Through Georgia. As I said when discussing Ermanaric. But "Did you accept me as your Savior? If I did, then genocide will not matter! Another aspect of Stirling's treatment of war:. Labels: Marius by Poul Anderson. Sean M. Brooks. Poul Anderson'...
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Poul Anderson Appreciation: The Draka Basics
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Sunday, 16 August 2015. The "Draka basics" are listed on p. 64 of SM Stirling's Marching Through Georgia. New York, 1991):. S Philosophy of Mastery. Nietzsche's The Will to Power. Gobineau's Inequality of Human Races. Meditations of Elvira Naldorssen. Here are five titles and five authors' names. However, Marching Through Georgia. Is an alternative history novel so how many of these items also exist in our timeline? Some we recognize, of course. The link from Meditations. I already knew of the Earthbook.
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Poul Anderson Appreciation: Time Travel And Alternative Histories II
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Sunday, 16 August 2015. Time Travel And Alternative Histories II. To summarize, the previous post. I) fantastic alternative histories;. Ii) realistic alternative histories;. Iii) realistic alternative histories generated by time travel;. Iv) time travel unable to generate alternative histories. SM Stirling is a master of (ii). I have just begun to read Stirling's Marching Through Georgia. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Logic of Time Travel. Personal and Literary Reflections. The End Of August. Some ...
