Thursday 8 April 2021

Eighteen Volumes

The Technic Civilization Saga, i.e., Poul Anderson's Technic History published in chronological order of fictitious events, could be broken down into eighteen more normal length volumes, thus -

Collection: eight stories from "The Saturn Game" to "The Season of Forgiveness."
Novel: The Man Who Counts.
 
Collection: Five stories from "Esau" to "Day of Burning."
Novel: Satan's World.
 
Collection: Three stories from "The Master Key" to "Lodestar."
Novel: Mirkheim.
 
Collection: Four stories from "The Star Plunderer" to "Rescue on Avalon."
Novel: The People Of The Wind.
 
Then the nine-volume Flandry series and its one-volume sequel.

5 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Something like this might be most practical if it was part of a COMPLETE COLLECTED WOKS OF POUL ANDERSON. Or would you rearrange the number of Technic stories per volume for such a collection?

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

I would keep the Technic History together in a COLLECTED WORKS.

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And I agree, series or stories sharing a common background should be kept together in a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS. And in internal chronological order.

Ad astra! Sean

Crunchepillar said...

Your thhe best

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Crunche!

Many thanks! Much appreciated. I hope we see more comments by you.

Ad astra! Sean