(i) Baen Books' trilogy - The Psychotechnic League, Cold Victory, Starship;
(ii) three other volumes - The Snows Of Ganymede (one half of an Ace Double), Virgin Planet (longer version), The Peregrine;
(iii) two uncollected short stories from the 1950s - "The Acolytes," "The Green Thumb."
(Not easy.)
Now it is sufficient to read:
(i) Baen Books' trilogy - The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volumes 1-3;
(ii) two other volumes - Virgin Planet (longer version), The Peregrine.
Thus, The Complete Psychotechnic League is not complete but completer. In fact, it even includes two further stories of questionable canonicity - "Entity," "Symmetry."
A complete Psychotechnic History could be just two volumes: before and after the invention of FTL.
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Kaor, Paul!
Assuming I got the longer form of VIRGIN PLANET first, your point (i) was how I first read most of the Psychotechnic stories (altho I had read "Brake" as long ago as Jan. 1972.
And old bone of contention between us is my belief that "The Chapter Ends" is not a true Psychoetechnic timeline story. My belief remains that Sandra Miesel shoehorned the story into STARSHIP because the Galacdtics in it could be argued as somehow descended from the Nomads and Cordies. Despite the fact NOTHING in the undisputed Psychotechnic stories shows the people in them as developing the powers we see the Galactics of "Chapter" using. I would still argue for that story being an independent, stand alone, non series tale.
Ad astra! Sean
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