Forty-Three Instalments

 

From:

"'The City of Ice is now on my horizon...'"

-Poul Anderson, "The Saturn Game" IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, 2009), pp. 1-73 AT I, p. 2 -

- to:

"The sun lifted higher above the burning horizon."

-Poul Anderson, "The Problem of Pain" IN The Van Rijn Method, pp. 103-134 AT p. 134 -

- Poul Anderson describes a period of interplanetary, then interstellar, exploration in three instalments.

From:

"The world's great age begins anew..."

-Poul Anderson, "Hiding Place" IN Anderson, Trader To The Stars (Pan Books, St. Albans, Herts, 1975), p. 7 -

- to:

"'We enjoyed the trader game as long as that lasted.'"

-Poul Anderson, Mirkheim (London, 1977), XXI, p. 218 -

- Anderson describes the rise and decline of the Polesotechnic League in eight instalments in four volumes.

From:

"Adzel talks a lot about blessings in disguise..."

-Poul Anderson, "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" IN Anderson, The Earth Book Of Stormgate (New York, 1979), pp. 49-67 AT p. 51 -

- to:

"'Upon your way of life I see His shadow.'"

-Poul Anderson, "Lodestar" IN The Earth Book Of Stormgate, pp. 368-407 AT p. 406 -

- and:

"...Coya saw that he was indeed old." (ibid., p. 407 -

- Anderson doubles the number of instalments in the Polesotechnic League period of his Technic History.

From:

"As far as we know - but how much do we really know, in this one corner of this one galaxy which we have somewhat explored? - Avalon was the first planet whereon two different intelligent species founded a joint colony."

-Poul Anderson, "Wingless" IN The Earth Book Of Stormgate, pp. 409-420 AT p. 411 -

- to:

"'I'll be proud to call you my friend.'"

-Poul Anderson, "Rescue on Avalon" IN The Earth Book Of Stormgate, pp. 421433 AT p. 43 -

- Anderson describes the two-stage colonization of Avalon in two instalments.

From:

"To those who read, good flight.

"It is Hloch of the Stormgate Choth who writes, on the peak of Mount Anrovil in the Wearthermother."

-The Earth Book Of Stormgate, p. 1 -

- to:

"Now The Earth Book Of Stomgate is ended. From my tower I see the great white sweep of the snows upon Mount Anrovil. I feel the air blow in and caress my feathers. Yonder sky is calling. I will go.

"Fair winds forever."

-ibid., p. 434 -

- Anderson adds twelve informative introductions and an afterword to the early period of the Technic History.

From:

"'This is an age in history such as has often occurred before when the enforced peace of Caesarism is the only solution.'"

-Poul Anderson, "The Star Plunderer" IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, March 2011), pp. 325-362 AT p. 356 -

- to:

"'We play the game move by move, and never see far ahead - the game of empire, of life, whatever you want to call it - and what the score will be when all the pieces at last go back into the box, who knows?'"

-Poul Anderson, The Game Of Empire IN Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, June 2012), pp. 189-453 AT CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE, p. 453 -

- Anderson describes the rise and decline of the Terran Empire in eighteen instalments.

From:

"Later ages wove a myth about Roan Tom."

-Poul Anderson, "A Tragedy of Errors" IN Flandry's Legacy, pp. 455-540 AT p. 457 -

- to:

"'You'll command more resources than many whole civilizations have done.'"

-Poul Anderson, "Starfog" IN Flandry's Legacy, pp. 709-794 AT p. 791 -

- Anderson's describe the slow rise to a much higher level of interstellar civilization in four instalments.

Thus, Poul Anderson wrote a truly amazing future history series in forty-three instalments.