What I call Poul Anderson's Polesotechnic League Tetralogy:
Trader To The Stars
The Trouble Twisters
Satan's World
Mirkheim
- is part of Anderson's main future history series.
Both tetralogies are about FTL interstellar trade. (Anderson also does STL.)
In Cities In Flight, Volume III, Okie culture comes to an end and the main protagonist leads the colonization of the Greater Magellanic Cloud. In Mirkheim, David Falkayn sees the Magellanic Clouds (see here) and witnesses the beginning of the end of the Polesotechnic League. Later, he leads the colonization of the planet Avalon.
Posting about the Polesotechnic League reminded me of Cities In Flight. This is why. There are probably more parallels.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And did Nicholas van Rijn ever come back from his final and longest journey of exploration? And did he ever visit David and Coya Falkayn on the newly colonized planet Gray/Avalon? Assuming Old Nick left Earth for this final exploratory journey at or near age 90, he probably could expect to live another ten to twenty years before dying. So he MIGHT have visited Avalon.
Sean
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