Installments Of The Technic History

Here is yet another attempt to summarize the pre-Flandry periods of Poul Anderson's Technic History in their original publication order:

8 Polesotechnic League installments in 4 volumes;
1 Ythrian novel in 1 volume;
8 more PL installments sandwiched between -
4 Ythrian short stories, all 12 in 1 volume;
3 more stories that could have been collected in a 7th volume.

Thus, 21 installments in 6 volumes + 3 uncollected installments.

After that, there are:

15 Flandry period installments, comprising 9 volumes + 1 other story;
  4 post-Flandry/post-Imperial installments in either 1 or 2 volumes.

Thus, a total of 43 installments, subsequently collected in fictional chronological order in 7 omnibus volumes by Baen Books.

Admirable features of the original publication order were:

a Polesotechnic League tetralogy culminating dramatically in its concluding volume;
a single Ythrian novel set centuries later;
Ythrian introductions and four Ythrian stories in the 6th volume, the Earth Book;
a second lease of life for the League which we thought had been left centuries in the past.

The fourth post-Flandry installment, thus the culminating installment of this entire future history, is "Starfog," a substantial work that we will revisit shortly.