Subtleties And Complexities II

See Subtleties And Complexities. 

In "The Master Key," the reference to "T'Kela" is a reference to "Territory" and the reference to "Borthu" is a reference to "Margin of Profit."  Thus, "The Master Key" refers to three other works, only one of them in Trader To The Stars. Thus further, while reading this collection, we know that more has gone before.

The pre-Saga book reading order of the first main section of Poul Anderson's Technic History:

(the van Rijn novel in paperback, badly copy-edited and with a "ludicrous title");

a van Rijn collection;

a collection about the early career of van Rijn's protege, David Falkayn;

two novels about both characters and the beginning of the end of the League;

a novel set centuries later on Falkayn's colony planet;

a longer collection nearly completing this section of the History and including the van Rijn novel.

 

The works chronologically preceding "Hiding Place" include those indicated here and the first two of the three Falkayn stories in The Trouble Twisters.