Anderson, Niven, Heinlein

Poul Anderson, "Iron" IN Larry Niven (Ed.), The Man-Kzin Wars (London, 1989), pp. 27-177.

("Iron" is also collected with Anderson's second kzinti story, "Inconstant Star," in Inconstant Star.)

"This industrial district had been devoted largely to the production of spaceship equipment which the hyperdrive was making as obsolete as fission power." (1, p. 30)

"Tiamat is much less known outside its system than it deserves to be. Once hyperdrive transport has become readily available and cheap, it may well be receiving tourists from all of human space: for it is a curious object, with considerable historical significance as well." (2, p. 33)

This second passage in particular:

addresses a reading audience living in that future period;
shows space technology as still progressing;
thus echoes Heinlein's Future History.

See Daily Life In Future Histories, in particular the two quotations from "Space Jockey."

The asteroid, Tiamat, is either an already established location in the Serpent Swarm of the system of Alpha Centauri A in Known Space or is newly created and seamlessly blended into Known Space by Anderson. The narrative begins by leaping into the midst of the action:

"The kzin screamed and leaped." (1, p. 29) (See image.)