The Game Of Empire is the last work in the Flandry period but the beginning of Diana Crowfeather's career. "Starfog" is the last work in the Technic History but the beginning of a new period of unprecedented wealth. Neither of these beginnings is fulfilled in any later works.
However, the end of the Technic History was the beginning of new works of speculative fiction by Poul Anderson, including two further future histories. In particular, Genesis will not date for a very long time.
Currently immersed in the Technic History, I do wish that this series had been even longer. However, its forty three installments retain their sense of dynamism, diversity and new beginnings.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Even now, after so many years and multiple rereading of many of the stories, there are surprisingly few signs of "dating" in the Technic series. I did object, in my "Andersonian Chess" article, to how Anderson used the obsolete English/Descriptive chess notation system, instead of the "algebraic" notation. That last is not only more satisfactory for recording chess moves but also looks more "futuristic."
Sean
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