See
recent posts. Larry Niven's Known Space future history was meant to be complete in seven volumes but has grown massively beyond that point in the subsequent forty five years. However, the last story in
Tales Of Known Space remains the concluding installment of the entire series.
The Earth Book Of Stormgate almost completed the Polesotechnic League and Avalonian sections of Poul Anderson's Technic History but does not address any of that History's even lengthier later periods. Missing from the list of future history collections
here was Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History, which is intermediate between Heinlein's Future History and Anderson's Technic History. However, that particular list included, for comparative purposes, only single-volume collections. The Psychotechnic History has never been adequately collected and would require two omnibus volumes for its STL and FTL periods, respectively. If anyone wants to start reading American future histories for the very first time, then I suggest that a good starting point would be the Future History followed by the Psychotechnic and Technic Histories and that an ultimate culmination is Anderson's
Genesis.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I would still grumble, fuss, argue, and carp at including "The Chapter Ends" as the last Psychotechnic story. I simply don't agree with Sandra Miesel shoehorning that story into the Pyschotechnic series. It's too different from the undoubted Psychotechnic stories for me to think "The Chapter End" belongs with them.
I think any collection of the Psychotechnic series should include a note saying not all commentators believe "Chapter" belongs with them. Unless, of course, we find undoubted evidence from Anderson himself saying otherwise.
Ad astra! Sean
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