The First Part Of The Technic History

Consider yet again:

The Polesotechnic League Tetralogy

Trader To The Stars

The Trouble Twisters

Satan's World

Mirkheim

 

The Ythrian Volumes

The People Of The Wind

The Earth Book Of Stormgate

 

Apart from three stories that could be collected as an additional volume to be read between the Tetralogy and The People Of The Wind, these six volumes comprise the first of the two main parts of Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization. As recently stated, the Earth Book completes the story of the Polesotechnic League and almost completes the story of human-Ythrian interactions.

 

David Falkayn first appears as a teenage apprentice in the first of the three installments collected as The Trouble Twisters and is last mentioned as an off-stage grandfather in the eleventh of the twelve installments collected as the Earth Book. However, The People Of The Wind, set centuries later, refers back to Falkayn as the historical Founder of the human-Ythrian colony on Avalon and as a remote ancestor of the heroine, Tabitha Falkayn. Thus, even more so than his employer, Nicholas van Rijn, the title character of Trader To The Stars, Falkayn dominates this first part of the Technic History just as Dominic Flandry, defender of the Terran Empire successfully resisted by Avalon, dominates the second. Falkayn saves the Merseians from supernova radiation and Flandry saves the Empire from the Merseians.

Another important figure, Christopher Holm:

is a viewpoint character in The People Of The Wind;

marries Tabitha Falkayn;

translates Ythrian works from Planha into Anglic;

fictitiously writes three of the twelve Earth Book installments.

It is appropriate that we remember our roots and the Technic History is where it's at.