The People Of The Wind

Having reread "The Star Plunderer" and "Sargasso of Lost Starships," I have remained within Rise Of The Terran Empire and started to reread The People Of The Wind. However, I have posted about this novel before, including quite recently. See here.

If I do post more about People.., I will not repeat information or go into the same amount of detail as before but will see whether there any other impressions worth noting. Mirkheim and People..., both in this omnibus volume, are easily two of the best installments of the Technic History: solid novels describing conflict and change affecting individual lives.

I disagree with the title Flandry's Legacy for the concluding volume of The Technic Civilization Saga. However, Falkayn's Legacy would be an appropriate subtitle for People... David Falkayn saved Merseia, discovered Mirkheim and colonized Avalon so his historical contributions are greater than those of his mentor, Nicholas van Rijn.

Hloch writes that Avalonians:

"...may well be surprised to learn that on numerous other worlds, it is [van Rijn] who lives in folk memory..."
-Poul Anderson, The Earth Book Of Stormgate (New York, 1978), p. 69.

In the History as a whole, Falkayn is overshadowed by both van Rijn and Flandry. However, in People..., we read of an entire planetary culture that is worth defending and that owes its existence entirely to David Falkayn.