Narrative Connections

"Wingless."

In addition to the narrative connections summarized in the previous post (see the above link):

Emil Dalmady came from a planet later visited by Dominic Flandry;

Nat Falkayn and the Holms live on a planet that was discovered by the crew of the spaceship Olga under Captain Gray during the first Grand Survey, explored in "The Problem of Pain," named by a granddaughter of David and Coya Falkayn and colonized by groups of human beings and Ythrians led by the Falkayns;

the Olga also first-contacted Ythri;

Coya Conyon/Falkayn was a granddaughter of David Falkayn's employer, Nicholas van Rijn, whose first short story and first novel are also in the Earth Book.

It is remarkable how many relevant works are gathered together in this one volume. Readers of the first van Rijn story, "Margin of Profit," can, at that stage, have no idea either that van Rijn's great-great-grandson will grow up on a planet called Avalon or that an even remoter descendant, Tabitha Falkayn, will fight for Avalon against the Terran Empire still later defended by Dominic Flandry.

It is not as if we have not noted these narrative connections before. However, I cannot start enumerating such connections without wanting to present as comprehensive as possible a summary of a future history series that grew organically from a few pulp magazine short stories into the seven-volume The Technic Civilization Saga.