Harvest The Fire

I have been rereading Poul Anderson's Harvest of Stars Tetralogy out of order: Volumes II, I, IV and now III, Harvest The Fire, which is much shorter:

the text begins on p. 9 and ends on p. 190;

unless I have miscounted, there are 22 pages of illustrations (11 double page spreads);

there are 9 blank pages between chapters;

each chapter begins half way down a page;

so many chapters end so far up a page that perhaps another 12 pages could be removed from the total;

amazingly, that still leaves 139 pages which meets my rule-of-thumb criterion for a novel, 100+ pages, although sizes of page and print make that criterion Heisenberg.

We considered the Prologue of Harvest The Fire here and, previously, here.

I will have to decide which work by Anderson to reread after Harvest The Fire. Meanwhile, current other reading, Julian May's Galactic Milieu Trilogy and Edmund Cooper's Seed Of Light, generates comparisons with Anderson.