{"id":273,"date":"2026-01-03T20:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/murasaki-anderson-poul\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:31:09","slug":"murasaki-anderson-poul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/murasaki-anderson-poul\/","title":{"rendered":"Murasaki – Anderson, Poul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Novel in Six Parts by Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Nancy Kress, Frederik Pohl<\/p>\n

Anthology, Edited by Robert Silverberg<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to providing the narrative framework for Murasaki, Mr. Anderson and Mr. Pohl have each written one of the novel\u2019s six chapters; the other four contributors are David Brin, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and Nancy Kress. What they have accomplished is a worthy feat of metafiction. For all their individual quirks of style, and outlook, their contributions fit together like pieces of a puzzle, just as the ecological and evolutionary facts about Genji and Chujo fit together into a grand design that does not become apparent until the end of the book\u2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf such details are worlds, and stories, made.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013The New York Times Book Review<\/p>\n

A scaled-down verson of Medea, Harlan Ellison\u2019s shared-world anthology based on a scientifically created world, this effort is, unfortunately, smaller in every sense. The talent pool (six writers, as opposed to Medea \u2018s 11) is limited to winners of the Science Fiction Writers of America\u2019s Nebula Award. Unlike the contents of Medea , these stories are linked and form a novel-like progression. The entries proceed chronologically, starting with the first humans to land on Genji and To no Chujo, the twin planets surrounding the sun Murasaki, and closing with the end of a centuries-long cycle involving both Genjians and Chujoans. Assorted conflicts among and scientific discoveries by the visiting humans constitute the middle sections. Although the contributors\u2014Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, David Brin, Nancy Kress and Frederik Pohl\u2014are all accomplished stylists, one finds little distinctions among their six chapters. If the planet Medea was a playground for writers\u2019 imaginations, the star Murasaki seems a pigeonhole that writers must subordinate their imagination and style to fit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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