Mirkheim is Volume IV of Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League Tetralogy.
These two novels play comparable roles in their respective series. Both pull together numerous plot threads and also indicate some of what is yet to come.
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After surveying seven or so future histories, we return to Anderson's Technic History as the best of its kind although some future history series are so dissimilar that "comparisons are odious."
We have found two ways to summarize (most of) the contents of the Technic History. The first summary has been used several times but (maybe) bears repetition; the second only once so far. Both revolve around the central role of the omnibus collection, The Earth Book Of Stormgate.
The First Summary
The Earth Book:
is the fifth Polesotechnic League volume and the second Ythrian volume;
completes the story of the Polesotechnic League and almost completes the story of human-Ythrian interactions;
refers to the Terran Empire but not to Dominic Flandry because that major character has not been born yet;
is followed by the nine-volume Flandry period and its single-volume sequel.
The Second Summary
The People Of The Wind, the Earth Book and The Day Of Their Return comprise an Ythrian Trilogy which is:
preceded by the Polesotechnic Tetralogy;
interrupted by the Young Flandry Trilogy;
succeeded by the Captain Flandry and Flandry's Legacy Trilogies.
It is kind of surprising that a series so large and apparently unwieldy is susceptible to such succinct summaries.
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