First And Eleventh

Ironically, "Hiding Place" was the first of the three Technic History installments to be collected as Trader To The Stars but is the last of the eleven installments collected as The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume I, The Van Rijn Method. Ten installments of the History have happened before "Hiding Place." However, of these ten, only two of the van Rijn installments were written before "Hiding Place." Everything else - explorations, contacts with Ythri, early experiences of Adzel and Falkayn, a further event on the planet Ivanhoe and even van Rijn's interaction with Emil Dalmady - was written later but fitted into some earlier period of the History.

Thus, these alternative "first" volumes reflect the order in which the episodes were written. According to the Chronology, Falkayn's apprentice and journeyman stages, "The Three-Cornered Wheel" and "A Sun Invisible," were both published in ASF, April, 1966, but this must be another error because the Wikipedia Bibliography lists them as 1963 and 1966, respectively.