During The Long Night II

See During The Long Night.

According to Poul Anderson's "A Tragedy of Errors," Roan Tom, a star rover of the Long Night, had a Lochlanna father and forged alliances between Kraken, Sassania and Nike. Thus, four planets are named.

According to Poul Anderson's Introduction to his The Night Face, this work is set during the Long Night after the Fall of the Terran Empire. The opening chapter confirms that the Empire has fallen and informs us that, fifty years after the Nuevamerican democrats had successfully rebelled against the Lochlanna aristocrats, Nuevamerica and Lochlann sent a joint exploratory expedition to Gwydion. Thus, three planets, including Lochlann, are named.

The Long Night period of the Technic History is covered by these two stories which are connected by references to planets and events but not by any common characters. They are followed by one story set during the Allied Planets period and another set during the Commonalty period. A very few stories can constitute a "future history," as happens elsewhere in Anderson's canon. Fortunately, the Long Night period is preceded by thirty nine works covering Technic civilization from its beginnings in the Solar System to the decline of the Terran Empire.