Five First Person Narrators In Poul Anderson's History Of Technic Civilization

(i) The crew of a space boat sent down from the Grand Survey spaceship Olga makes first contact with Ythrians but the story is narrated by the planetologist who remains in the Olga.

(ii) The third person account of Peter Berg's experience with Ythrians on Avalon is framed by an unnamed character's first person accounts of his conversations with Berg.

(iii) While he is a student on Earth, the Wodenite Adzel sings Fafnir and parades as the Chinese dragon but the story is narrated by the human student who persuades Adzel to play these roles.

(iv) A friend of the father of a man who has had a bad experience on the planet Cain narrates how Nicholas van Rijn explains what happened on Cain.

(v) Manuel Argos leads a slave revolt and founds the Terran Empire but the story is narrated by one of Argos's followers in the revolt.

Obliqueness: first, Anderson imagines what happened to someone; then, he thinks of someone else to recount it.