the "Mother of the Moon" chapters of The Stars Are Also Fire begin with Guthrie as a man but proceed to his download;
the narrative present of The Stars Are Also Fire is set centuries later in the Solar System while download Guthrie is at Alpha Centauri, as is the sequel Harvest The Fire;
in The Fleet Of Stars, a copy of download Guthrie travels to the Solar System;
the opening section of The Stars Are Also Fire is set "Long afterward..." (p. 1)
I have tried to present this future history in chronological order here. Instead of short stories originally published separately, it is four novels with chapters set in different periods.
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Poul could handle juggling timelines very neatly.
Dear Mr. Stirling,
He did! And Poul Anderson managed to splice together very smoothly two originally separate series: the stories featuring Nicholas van Rijn and the Polesotechnic League and Dominic Flandry and the Terran Empire. Perhaps one or two weak spots here and there, but nothing too jarring, on the whole. And it was done on an impulse, when Anderson decided to mention "Polesotechnarch" van Rijn in THE PLAGUE OF MASTERS.
Sean
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