Wolfe Hall And Roland

In The Conquest Of The Rustimite Lowlands, we numbered the installments of the Rustum History, 1-9. We can now trace another development through these installments:

in 1, set on Earth, Theron Wolfe is a merchant and a leader of the Constitutionalist movement;

in 4, set on Rustum, Wolfe is Mayor in the town of Anchor on the plateau of High America;

in 6, set on Rustum, dances are held in Wolfe Hall;

in 9, set on Roland, Rustum is referred to as another colonized planet.

This is the warp and woof of future history. The name of a character in earlier installments becomes the name of a place or a building in a later installment, just as Harriman, "The Man who Sold The Moon," is referred to later in Heinlein's Future History.

Poul Anderson's particular achievement was not only to write good future histories but also to write so many of them, creating both quality and quantity.