This is another chapter of the Earth Book that is a previously published work, the fifth so far. Although the text is a historical novel, Hloch thinks that it is "...reasonably factual." (p. 146) (For full reference, see here.) He includes it "...partly because van Rijn is more central in it than in others..." (ibid.)
Indeed, the other two novels known to us, Satan's World and Mirkheim, are equally about van Rijn's trade pioneer crew. He adds that it was originally published "...either on Terra or Hermes; separate authors and dates are given on those two worlds, and Rennhi did not feel the matter was worth pursuing further." (ibid.) We know of one other title and that Rennhi was right not to pursue it.
"The Star Plunderer," our only source of information about Manuel Argos, Founder of the Terran Empire, is historical fiction, a "play within the play," and The Man Who Counts is presented as a historical novel. We accept them as such and recognize that someone else could have written a non-fictional account of the same events. Think about important events that you have been involved in, then imagine that those events have been dramatized in a feature film. I have seen certain British politicians, then actors presenting them on screen.
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