Monday 2 March 2020

History And Saga

My suggested way of re-presenting the original History of Technic Civilization:

The Polesotechnic League Tetralogy
I. Trader To The Stars
II. The Trouble Twisters
III. Satan's World
IV. Mirkheim

The Completion Of The League Period And More
V. The Saturn Game And Other Stories
VI. The People Of  The Wind
VII. The Earth Book Of Stormgate

The Young Flandry Trilogy
VIII. Ensign Flandry
IX. A Circus Of Hells
X. The Rebel Worlds

The Rest Of The Flandry Period
XI. The Day Of Their Return (with "Outpost of Empire")
XII. Flandry Of Terra
XIII. Agent Of The Terran Empire (with changes to the reading order in XII and XIII)
XIV. A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows
XV.  A Stone In Heaven
XVI. The Game Of Empire

The Post-Imperial Period
XVII. The Night Face And Other Stories

In the above lists:

I-VII correspond to The Technic Civilization, Volumes I-III.
VIII-X correspond to Saga, Vol IV.
XI-XIV correspond to Saga, Vols V-VI. 
XV-XVII correspond to Saga, Vol VII.

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Hmmmm, is this how you might favor arranging the Technic stories in a hypothetical COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON? I would ague for including in TRADER TO THE STARS "The Saturn Game" and then the revised version of "Margin of Profit."

And THE NIGHT FACE AND OTHER STORIES should include the original texts of the five Technic stories revised by Anderson.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

I don't know. I like THE TECHNIC CIVILIZATION SAGA and the original publication order. I know that "The Saturn Game" is chronologically the earliest but I don't think it would fit in TRADER TO THE STARS. Like some of the EARTH BOOK stories, it would have to be fitted in later - IF we are talking about making minimal changes to the original reading order.

Paul.