To recapitulate information from earlier posts, Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization incorporates eight stages of Ythrian history. Six are included in the Earth Book:
human explorers under Captain Gray discover Ythri;
Ythrians and human beings jointly explore a planet named after Gray;
an Ythrian ship takes van Rijn of the Polesotechnic League to Mirkheim and its captain sees the shadow of God the Hunter over van Rijn's way of life;
human beings and Ythrians colonize islands on Gray, renamed Avalon;
colonists on Avalon spread to a major continent;
[the Terran Empire and the Domain of Ythri wage war and Terra tries to annex Avalon];
soon after the war, an Avalonian Ythrian writes The Earth Book Of Stormgate;
[much later, an Avalonian Ythrian spies for both Domain and Empire].
Ythri is as important as League and Empire and we want its history to continue.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I am not sure I would agree with the Ythrian space captain in "Lodestar" seeing the shadow of God the Hunter over Nicholas van Rijn's way of life. A human might say instead that human foolishness and blundering was was causing the League to break down.
Sean
Sean,
I think 2 ways of saying the same thing, though? When God stoops on an Ythrian during a storm, the Ythrians do not deny that the storm was the physical cause of death.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
True, two ways of saying the same thing. But a human believer in God as King and Father might insist that God did not will the death of, or "stoop" on the Ythrian who died in a storm. He or I would say God simply permitted the Ythrian's death.
Sorry to be so pedantic!
Sean
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