Again Introductions

In his introductions to the seven volumes of The Technic Civilization Saga, Hank Davis discusses the introductions, if any, to the individual installments. Volume III, Rise Of The Terran Empire, collects:

two novels, Mirkheim and The People Of The Wind;

two short stories, "Wingless" and "Rescue on Avalon";

two novelettes, "The Star Plunderer" and "Sargasso of Lost Starships."

Davis informs us that:

the novels have no known introductions;

the short stories each have an Earth Book introduction;

the first novelette has had an introduction since it was first published in Planet Stories.

However, none of these three introductions is of type (i). (See Three Kinds Of Introductions.) The Earth Book introductions are type (iii). The other is of type (ii) which is really just part of the text.

Davis adds a type (iii) introduction, written as by "Michael Karageorge," to the second novelette. This is the only such introduction added in the Saga and is quite effective, giving a new lease of life to Donvar Ayeghen who is cited by Karageorge.