Forwards And Backwards In Time

At the end of "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson," the first person narrator, James Ching, is about to go into space as an apprentice to a Master Merchant of the Polesotechnic League, on Adzel's recommendation.

Referring back to Hloch's Earth Book introduction to the story, we remind ourselves that:

the story is extracted from Jim's lifelong written reminiscences;

 

he settled in Catawrayannis on Llynathawr;

 

his descendants kept his notebooks;

 

Rennhi heard of these historical documents;

Jim's descendants made them available to her;

 

her son, Hloch, included this story in the Earth Book because -

- it shows Terran society in the glory days of the Polesotechnic League;

 

it makes the first known reference to Adzel.

Again, we appreciate the quantity of future historical complexity that is added by the collection of these twelve Technic History installments into The Earth Book Of Stormgate.