Tuesday, 10 September 2013

The Psychotechnic History

(This post was written in haste and has since been slightly rearranged.)

In 1981-82, Tor Books published Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic Future History in three volumes:

The Psychotechnic League
Cold Victory
Starship

The Chronology at the end of Starship brackets four installments of the History as not included in  these editions:

"The Snows of Ganymede"
"The Acolytes"
"The Green Thunb"
The Peregrine

Starship includes only a shorter version of "Virgin Planet."

Thus, I have seen on the Internet a more complete listing of this future history as:

The Peregrine
The Snows Of Ganymede
Virgin Planet
The Psychotechnic League
Cold Victory
Starship

This order is wrong because:

The Peregrine and Virgin Planet belong during Starship;
 The Snows Of Ganymede belongs during Cold Victory.

That still excludes "The Acolytes" and "The Green Thumb" but I now need to track down The Snows Of Ganymede.

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