History Unfolds

In these troubled times, we, editorially speaking, are revisiting Poul Anderson's The Earth Book Of Stormgate and have begun to reread only the fourth of the twelve Technic History installments collected in this volume. So far, the Earth Book has introduced:

Ythrians

The Solar Commonwealth

Ythrian religion and Avalon

Adzel and the Polesotechnic League

Nicholas van Rijn

 

The planets Cynthia and Hermes have been mentioned and the fictional editor, Hloch, has referred to the Terran Empire and the Terran War. As yet, there has been no suggestion of any connection either between van Rijn, Adzel, a certain Hermetian and a certain Cynthian or between that Hermetian, Ythrians and Avalon. But history must be allowed to unfold at its own pace and meanwhile we might spend the rest of this evening on other reading. It continues to be a ball.