Saturday, 9 May 2020

Interstellar Travelers

In the Stellar Union period of Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History, travelers between the stars include:

Coordination Service field agents
Galactic Surveyors
Nomads
Traders
voortrekkers
Tiunran explorers and scientists
the Alori trying to subvert the Union
others, unspecified

So space traffic is busy. It is unfortunate that most of these travelers appear in only a single installment. However, the Psychotechnic History made a good start to Anderson's future historical works.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Yes, in some ways the Psychotechnic stories were like "trainer wheels" far more deeply thought out Technic series future history. Even tho the latter began as two originally separate timelines impulsively linked up quite by accident.

Ad astra! Sean