Hloch's Sources VI

In "Who Knows Of Avalon?" (here), I reread Poul Anderson's The People Of The Wind in order to summarize not the plot but the background information about the planet Avalon, which turned out to be a narrative in its own right. Similarly, rereading not the stories but just the interstitial passages in Anderson's The Earth Book Of Stormgate reveals an entire behind-the-scenes history of people and events. We learn more about James Ching, Emil Dalmady and Christopher Holm, meet Dalmady's daughter and learn about pre-Troubles precautions taken by van Rijn and Falkayn.

"Lodestar"
The records on Hermes contained a ship's log, taped conversations, data lists etc for van Rijn's journey to Mirkheim. Having identified the vessel and its captain, Rennhi contacted Wryfields Choth on Ythri. The Wyvan, Stirrok, located Captain Hirharouk's private journal and Hirharouk's descendants allowed it to be read. Hloch and Arinnian composed the narrative, "Lodestar."

"Wingless"
This story, about David Falkayn's grandson on Avalon, was "...the last that Judith Dalmedy/Lundgren wrote for Morgana." (p. 410) (For full reference, see here.) Hloch tells us that "...she was then in her high old age..." but that "...the memories upon which she was drawing were fresh." (ibid.) Presumably, these were the memories of Nat Falkayn.

"Rescue on Avalon"
A.A. Craig was a Terran who traveled widely, gathering material for historical narratives, during a pause in the Troubles. While on Avalon, he heard from an elderly man of an incident in that man's youth. Craig wrote a fictionalized but nevertheless "...substantially accurate..." (p. 421) account in his Tales Of The Great Frontier.

Old age and memories of youth are an emergent theme. The published authors whose works are reproduced by Hloch are:

Maeve Downey;
A.A. Craig (2);
Judith Dalmady/Lundgren (3) -

- and we are also told that Christopher Holm has translated several works from Planha into Anglic.