Emil Dalmady did indeed become an entrepreneur. When he was on or near Ivanhoe, one of the people involved in "The Season of Forgiveness" told him that story. He relayed it to his daughter, Judith Lundgren, who wrote it in the Avalonian periodical,
Morgana. Hloch includes it in the
Earth Book because Falkayn had been on Ivanhoe and because the story is about a major human faith.
Poul Anderson, gathering together the remaining Polesotechnic League stories, invents plausible reasons why Hloch would include just these stories in a history of the origins of the Stormgate Choth. As I have said before, we read not only a future history series but also the works of its historians and everything ties together, even this incident on Ivanhoe.
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Kaor, Paul!
Meanign Emil Dalmady obtained "The Season of Forgiveness" from Juan Hernandez or Thomas Overbeck? Possibly!
But THE EARTH BOOK OF STORMGATE was not meant to be part of a history of the Stormgate choth on Avalon. Rather, it was compiled by a Ythrian as part of an effort to help make the human race more COMPREHENSIBLE for Ythrians.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
A history not of the choth but of its origins:
"This is the tale, told afresh, of how Avalon came to settlement and thus our choth to being." (p. 2)
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I remember that, and it still seems odd when you keep in mind how seven out of twelve of the stories in THE EARTH BOOK has nothing directly to do with Ythrians.
Ad astra! Sean
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