{"id":285,"date":"2026-01-03T20:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/techtnic-01-anderson-poul\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:31:40","slug":"techtnic-01-anderson-poul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/techtnic-01-anderson-poul\/","title":{"rendered":"Techtnic 01 – Anderson, Poul"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thinking about this early novel after a lapse of years, I believe I can see what its wellsprings are. They include the old pulp conventions of storytelling and a desire to change or, at any rate, spoof these: Falstaff, Long John Silver, and other amiable literary rogues, as well as a few real figures from the Renaissance: L. Sprague de Camp\u2019s unique combination of humor and adventure: above all, Hal Clement\u2019s marvelously detailed and believable fictional worlds. I do not say that The Man Who Counts matches any of its inspirers. Certainly I would write it a bit differently today. Yet it does represent my first serious venture into planet-building and the first full-scale appearance of Nicholas van Rijn. Thus I remain fond of it.<\/p>\n

After being serialized in Astounding (today\u2019s Analog) it had a paperback edition. The latter was badly copy-edited and saddled with the ludicrous title War of the Wing-Men. I am happy that now, at last, the proper text and name can be restored.<\/p>\n

Planet-building is one of the joyous arts, if you have that sort of mind. The object is to construct a strange world which is at the same time wholly consistent, not only with itself but with what science knows of such matters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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