The Technic History: The Original Reading Order

Last thoughts before turning in with a long walk along Lancaster Canal planned for tomorrow:

Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization is a uniquely structured future history series. For the purposes of the present post, I focus only on:

The Polesotechnic League Tetralogy
Trader To The Stars 
The Trouble Twisters 
Satan's World 
Mirkheim

Two Companion Volumes  
The People of The Wind
The Earth Book Of Stormgate

Reading Experience:

the Tetralogy ends as the League declines;

we think that we have seen the last of van Rijn, Falkayn, Adzel and Chee Lan;

next, we read an excellent novel set generations later on Falkayn's human-Ythrian colony planet of Avalon as it successfully resists the Terran Empire that will later be defended by Dominic Flandry;

then, the omnibus Earth Book collection -

is compiled, edited and introduced by Hloch of Stormgate Choth on Avalon;

begins by telling us how Ythri was discovered and Avalon explored;

restores all the League characters, even incorporating the earliest van Rijn stories and an account of Adzel's student days on Earth;

also references Christopher Holm from The People Of The Wind;

describes how Falkayn, Adzel and Chee Lan helped the Merseians, Flandry's later enemies;

ends by recounting how the Avalonian islands and main continent were settled.

A perfect package.