Succinct Summaries Department

Always mentally re-cataloguing Poul Anderson's Technic History, I realized that the first three volumes of The Technic Civilization Saga collect:

the entire contents of three previous collections;

three previously published novels, in addition to the one that was in one of the collections;

three other stories.

Thus, threes all the way, especially since the first two previous collections each contained three stories although the third held twelve, including a novel. By concluding in the Terran Empire period, the third Saga volume sets the scene for Volumes IV-VII which collect the entire contents of the nine-volume Flandry period and the single post-Flandry collection.

A succinct summary of a series that is long to read, reread and analyze adequately.