Terrestrial Transformations

Here's the deal. Having reread Poul Anderson's A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, we stay with Dominic Flandry, although obviously we are not rereading his series in chronological order. However, since Ensign Flandry opens with "Evening on Terra-," we first look at what we are shown of Terra in pre-Flandry periods.

The opening three installments of Anderson's Technic History are set off Earth;

"Margin of Profit" shows us the view of Djakarta and the Java Sea from Nicholas van Rijn's office, the one of van Rijn's mansions that is on the peak of Kilimanjaro and some action in space;

"How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" shows us San Francisco Integrate;

the next four installments are set off Earth;

"Esau" shows us Chicago Integrate, then action on another planet;

the next four installments are set off Earth except for one cameo appearance by van Rijn in his office;

"The Master Key" shows us Chicago Integrate and action on another planet;

Satan's World is mostly off Earth but also shows us van Rijn in the floating town of Delfinburg;

the next two installments are off Earth -

- to be continued.