Wells, The Shape Of Things To Come
Stapledon, Last And First Men
Aldiss, Galaxies Like Grains Of Sand
RC Churchill, A Short History Of The Future
American
Burroughs, The Moon Trilogy
Heinlein, The Future History
Asimov, Robots and Empire
Blish, three including one that branches
Anderson, eight or nine
Niven, Known Space
Pournelle, CoDominium
Piper, Terrohuman
Bradley, Darkover
Simak, City
Le Guin, Hainish
Cordwainer Smith, The Instrumentality
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI noticed the bit about "eight or NINE" future histories by Poul Anderson. I see you had not forgotten our debate on how we should classify the Hoka stories co-authored by Anderson and Dickson!
Sean
Sean,
DeleteNo, in my estimation the 9th would be the "Directorate" series of just four stories. Hoka, if we include it, would be a 10th.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
DeleteI agree. It's easy to over look the Directorate stories because of how few they are. At only four short stories they are among the more obscure of Anderson's works.
The Maurai series has only three short stories, but it also includes a long novel: ORION SHALL RISE. So, it forms a substantial body of work. And THERE WILL BE TIME sort of ties in with the Maurai series as well.
Sean
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI should have added that I great enjoyed reading Cordwainer Smith's Instrumentality of Mankind stories. Am I right thinking you did not quite like them?
Sean
Sean,
DeleteDidn't really get into them.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteDarn! I'm sorry about that. I would have thought the Instrumentality stories, stretching as they did from the mist of remote antiquity to the distant future, would appeal to you.
Sean