Narrators And Our Corner Of The Cosmos

The Time Machine has both an outer and an inner narrator. The latter is the Time Traveler.

Poul Anderson's "Wings of Victory" has a first person narrator among the crew of the spaceship Olga even though she describes the expedition to the surface of Ythri in the third person from the point of view of another character.

Anderson's "The Problem of Pain" has a first person narrator to whom Peter Berg recounts his experience on Gray/Avalon even though that experience is then recounted to the readers in the third person.

Anderson's "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" is narrated in the first person by its protagonist, Jim Ching.

"How To Be Ethnic..." might be my favorite among the juvenile short stories in Anderson's Technic History although all of them are good. This story, part of the foundations of the History:

is based on a short passage in the first trader team story;
introduces Adzel and the Polesotechnic League;
mentions Cynthia, Gorzun, Ythri, Alfzar, a Lunarian and a spacehand in the Brotherhood;
presents yet another formulation of a familiar idea -

"...(who can know all the races, all the worlds we've already found in our small corner of this wonderful cosmos?)"
-Poul Anderson, "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" IN Anderson, The Earth Book Of Stormgate (New York, 1979), pp. 49-67 AT p. 54.