Saturday 7 March 2020

Another Future Historical Link

See Future And Alternative Historical Links.

Here is an even more indirect sequence of links connecting Daven Laure back to Nicholas van Rijn:

Laure is from the planet, New Vixen;

we infer that New Vixen is a colony of Vixen;

Flandry visited Vixen with the Vixenite, Kit Kittredge;

earlier, Adzel and Chee Lan met another Vixenite Kittredge on Falkayn's home planet, Hermes;

Falkayn, Adzel and Chee Lan all worked for van Rijn.

Everything is connected. Poul Anderson's characters remain unaware of these particular connections but we see them with the god's-eye view of readers of a future history series.

We have arrived at the end of the Technic History:

"...victory."
-"Starfog," p. 794 -

- but might find more to say about some of the earlier installments.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And everything is connected with us in real life and history as well as in fictions like the Technic stories! And the works of Poul Anderson are themselves historical facts that will help to shape and influence people, including those who never read any of his stories.

Ad astra! Sean