The previous
post really summarized not three but just two ways into Poul Anderson's Technic History because, whereas the seven-volume
The Technic Civilization Saga presents this entire future history series in chronological order of fictional events from its beginning in the outer Solar System to its end in another spiral arm of the galaxy,
Trader To The Stars and
The Earth Book Of Stormgate are two volumes of the series as it existed before the
Saga was published:
Trader To The Stars is the opening volume of a Polesotechnic League Tetralogy that is followed by the companion volumes, The People Of The Wind and The Earth Book Of Stormgate;
League stories in the Earth Book are to be read on a "now it can be told/this is what you were not told before" basis;
these six volumes plus three other short stories correspond to the Saga, Volumes I-III.
I have said all this before but I always find it worth re-saying.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Comprising as it does ten stories and one novel Anderson and Dickson's Hoka/Interbeing League stories should also be considered a "future history," altho the time it covered, maybe half a century, you thought was too short to call it that. Also, I know you did not much care for the Hoka stories.
I wrote "half a century" because I think STAR PRINCE CHARLIE should probably be considered occurring some decades after the stories featuring Alexander Jones and his family on Toka.
Ad astra! Sean
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