A future history series like Poul Anderson's Technic History features many fictional extra-solar planets. No doubt we could list the planets that are mentioned only once and those that are referenced more than once. The latter make the background of a series more substantial.
On p. 558:
"...a green valley of Freya..."
"...a citizen of Ramanujan planet..."
"...the Huy Brasealian jewel-tapestry..."
Captain Bahadur Torrance, he who is from Ramanujan, looks in the direction of "Valhalla." However, the ensuing reference to Freya informs us that Valhalla is a star and that Freya is one of its planets. No doubt the other Valhallan planets include Odin, Thor, Tyr, Sif etc - although there is also a "Woden" elsewhere. I am fairly sure that this story is the only one to refer to Freya or indeed to the Valhallan system.
By contrast, Ramanujan shows up again as the home planet of Chunderban Desai, a major viewpoint character in The Day Of Their Return and a significant supporting character in A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, and, in The People Of The Wind, we read:
"...the engineer-computerman, CPO Abdullah Helu...a lean middle-aged careerist from Huy Braseal."
-Poul Anderson, The People Of The Wind IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2011), pp. 437-662 AT IV, p. 478.
There are other examples but we will take them as we find them.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And I have puzzled over how someone with a Muslim SEEMING name as Abdullah Helu. could have come from a colonized planet with so CELTIC a name as Huy Braseal. True, his name alone does not have to mean Helu was a Muslim. But it did seem a bit odd!
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
But people travel and settle: Smiths in Africa and Patels in England.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
True. And the examples you cited was because of how the British Raj once ruled India. So there would be people going back and forth. And the same would be true of the Technic stories, in both the eras of the League and the Empire.
Ad astra! Sean
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