Introducing "The Master Key"

Poul Anderson, "The Master Key" IN Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 273-327.

In this second volume of The Technic Civilization Saga:

p. 272 is a half page of text concluding the second trader team story, "Day of Burning";

p. 273 is empty except for a very appropriate six-line quotation attributed to Shelley:

"A loftier Argo cleaves the main,
"Fraught with a later prize;
"Another Orpheus sings again,
"And loves, and weeps, and dies.
"A new Ulysses leaves once more
"Calypso for his native shore."

p. 274 is blank;

p. 275 is the opening page of the text of the sixth Nicholas van Rijn story, "The Master Key."

CONTENTS, p.V, informs us that "The Master Key" begins on p. 275, overlooking the fact that the Shelley quotation is intended not as an interesting interpolation between stories but as a brief introduction to "The Master Key." Thus, this story, complete with its evocative introduction, begins on p. 273.

For previous discussion, see here.