Literary Criticism of the Broken Sword

[ndrosen]

I have a pair of guest posts up at the Poul Anderson Appreciation Blogspot. Among the deceased Grandmaster’s earlier works was a fantasy novel, The Broken Sword, which he later revised. I wrote a general comparison of the original and revised versions, and, due to some glitch with the website, the comments people left on that post show up here. I followed that up with second guest post on one particular change: in addition to editing the prose, Anderson substituted one Person for another in what he described as a brief but important scene, so I wrote an analysis of that change.

I have previously mentioned my opinion, shared with the now late Dr. Jerry Pournelle, that Anderson should have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Comments

[selenite0]

I've always liked Anderson better than Asimov or Clarke. He ranged from poetic adventure to the nerdiest of hard SF. Seriously, "The Three Cornered Wheel" has to be the most Analog Mag nerd story ever. And I say this as a fan of it.