New Settings

In Poul Anderson's The Game Of Empire, the city of Olga's Landing is so well realized that a new reader might be forgiven for thinking that it was an already established setting whereas, in this case, Anderson is exercising the sf writer's prerogative to create ex nihilo an entire inhabited planet in any new story, even when that story is the concluding installment of a series or sub-series.

Continuity in the Technic History is provided more by the characters and by the interstellar situation than by any particular planetary environment although these also may recur:

Diomedes, the setting of The Man Who Counts, reappears in A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows;

Aeneas, introduced in The Rebel Worlds, becomes the setting of The Day Of Their Return;

Talwin, introduced in A Circus Of Hells, reappears in A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows.

Further details on Imhotep include:

Olga's Landing, like the University of Nova Roma on Aeneas, began as a scientific base;

descendants of the original settlers are "...dark-skinned and aquiline-featured" (Flandry's Legacy, p. 197);

the landlord at the Sign of the Golden Cockbeetle is called Hassan;

outback miners, joygirls and Tigeries drink at tables but a Wodenite is so large that he must lie on the floor.

So far, this information covers only one city. However, other regions of Imhotep have been colonized by Tigeries and vaz-Siravo and there is another colonized planet in the same planetary system.