Collections And Introductions III

("Trader Team" was re-entitled "The Trouble Twisters.")

A story can be preceded by an introduction in its original magazine appearance or can acquire one when collected;

an introduction can be written by the author, by someone else or as if by someone else;

an introduction either addresses the real world readers of the story or extends the fiction, i.e., is written as if by an observer within the fictional world of the story.

"The Saturn Game," not introduced in Analog, was introduced by the author when it was collected in Going For Infinity. However, this introduction did not impart information about the story and therefore was not included when "The Saturn Game" was collected in The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume I, The Van Rijn Method, compiled by Hank Davis.

The twelve works collected as The Earth Book Of Stormgate are there introduced as if by Hloch of Stormgate Choth on Avalon, thus immensely extending the fiction. One of these works, "Lodestar," had been introduced by Anderson in its its original anthology appearance. In The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume II, David Falkayn: Star Trader, Hank Davis includes Anderson's introduction as an afterword.

Anderson wrote a fictional introduction to "The Star Plunderer" when it first appeared in Planet Stories. Davis included this introduction when "The Star Plunderer" was collected in The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume III, Rise Of The Terran Empire and also wrote a fictional introduction to the following story, "Sargasso of Lost Starships," which is best rationalized as a fiction within the fiction.

Anderson wrote a fictional introduction in his van Rijn collection, Trader To The Stars, and three such introductions in his Falkayn collection, The Trouble Twisters. All of these are reproduced in the appropriate volumes of The Technic Civilization Saga.