Cold Planets

"Every planet in the story is cold - even Terra, though Flandry came home on a warm evening of northern summer. There the chill was in the spirit."

-Poul Anderson, A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight Of Terra (Riverdale, NY, March 2012), I, p. 342.

Every new instalment in a pyramidally structured future history series builds on earlier instalments and adds more. This is demonstrated by the planets referred to by the omniscient narrator:

Terra We have seen the Earth of Flandry's period in earlier instalments.

Diomedes Van Rijn was there.

Talwin Flandry was there before.

Chereion Aycharaych's home planet. We have read and learned something about it. This is the first and last time that we see it.

Dennitza New and extremely important but unfortunately never to be seen again. We want the Technic History to be much longer. As Tolkien said of his Trilogy: "It is too short."