Two Future Histories

We do not necessarily read a future history series in chronological order of fictional events.

Poul Anderson's Technic History

In the original reading order, Volumes V and VI were The People Of The Wind and The Earth Book Of Stormgate. The People Of The Wind introduces the human-Ythrian colony planet, Avalon, centuries after Nicholas van Rijn's death whereas in "Lodestar," collected in the Earth Book, van Rijn converses with his granddaughter shortly before she marries David Falkayn who will later found the Avalonian colony.

 

Anderson's Harvest Of Stars History

Volumes I and II are Harvest Of Stars and The Stars Are Also Fire. In Harvest Of Stars, the deceased Anson Guthrie's personality has been downloaded into a neural network and some human beings have been adapted to live comfortably in Lunar gravity whereas, in The Stars Also Fire, Guthrie, while still alive, converses with his granddaughter long before she comes to be known as the Mother of the Moon.