Tuesday, 29 December 2020

Two Definitive Collections

I suppose that Time Patrol and The Earth Book Of Stormgate are two definitive single-volume Poul Anderson collections. The Technic Civilization Saga counts perhaps as a seven-volume collection.

Time Patrol collects the whole Time Patrol series except for the long novel, The Shield Of Time, to which it is a companion volume.

The front cover blurb of The Earth Book Of Stormgate (New York, 1979) reasonably accurately proclaims that this book: 

"Spans, illuminates and completes the magnificent future history of the Polesotechnic League" 

The Earth Book collects half of the twenty four pre-Flandry installments of the Technic History while its new introductions are fictitiously written as if during the early Terran Empire, albeit still pre-Flandry. No single-volume collection could be more comprehensive.

The two collections are also complementary, covering past and future history respectively although of alternative timelines.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And the three volumes mostly collecting the Psychotechnic Institute does the same for that timeline as does the SAGA and TIME PATROL collections for their own alternate histories.

Happy New Year! Sean