Culmination

The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume III, Rise Of The Terran Empire, concludes and supremely culminates with The People Of The Wind, which:

provided the background material for Hloch's Earth Book texts that had begun with an introduction to the second story in Volume I and had concluded at the mid-point of Volume III;

describes the Terran War on Avalon and features Christpher Holm, both of them mentioned by Hloch;

interweaves the histories of the colonized planet, Avalon ("Wingless"; "Rescue on Avalon"), and of the Terran Empire ("The Star Plunderer"; "Sargasso of Lost Starships");

presents the long term consequences of David Falkayn's greatest achievement, the joint human-Ythrian colonization of Avalon;

is the first of eight novels about the Terran Empire, the remaining seven being collected together with twelve shorter works, in Volumes IV-VII.

Originally, The People Of The Wind would have been read before The Earth Book Of Stormgate. However, in The Technic Civilization Saga, the entire contents of the Earth Book, together with other earlier works, are read before The People Of The Wind which, when read, finally explains Hloch's references to the Terran War and to:

"...Arinnian of Stormgate, whose human name is Christopher Holm and who has rendered several Ythrian works into Anglic..."
-Poul Anderson, The Earth Book Of Stormgate (New York, 1979), p. 291.