Stars And Galaxy

"Gypsy."

No one in the Traveler understood why an explosion in the engines had thrown them thousands of light-years off course:

"Speculation had involved space warps - whatever that term means, points of infinite discontinuity, undimensional fields, and Cosmos knows what else. Could we find what had happened, and purposefully control the phenomenon which had seized us by some blind accident, the Galaxy would be ours. Meanwhile, we were limited to psuedovelocities of a couple of hundred lights, and interstellar space mocked us with vastness." (p. 261)

"Star travel was still in its infancy when we left Sol." (p. 265)

Yet "Star Ship," set only sixty years later according to Sandra Miesel's Chronology, refers to "Galactic civilization" (p. 284) and "Galactic Coordinators." (p. 286)

In "The Acolytes," set 125 years after "Star Ship," the claim is made that the newly colonized planet, Nerthus is:

"'...going to be one of the great planets of the Galaxy...'"

-Poul Anderson, "The Acolytes" IN Anderson, The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 3 (Riverdale, NY, July 2018), pp. 3-19 AT p. 4.

In the sequel to "The Acolytes," it is stated that:

"...there are so many races knocking around the Galaxy these days - with more discovered all the time..." (p. 22)

A newly arrived being claims to be travelling around:

"'...to see what the Galaxy and its civilizations are like...'" (p. 23)

Two different backgrounds conflict.