Companion Volumes In A Unique Way

The People Of The Wind, a novel, and The Earth Book Of Stormgate, a collection, are companion volumes in a unique way. The People Of The Wind is set mostly on the planet Avalon whereas the Earth Book is fictitiously published there. A character in the former is an author of the latter. In the novel, Governor Saracoglu summarizes events that had led to the colonization of Avalon and the Earth Book collects narratives about some of those events. Some of these accounts were previously published on Avalon or elsewhere as works of fiction although based on real events. Thus, authors put fictional conversations into the mouths of real people. Hloch, the editor of the Earth Book, wants to record the events that had led to the founding of his own choth, Stormgate, so he does not include any out and out fiction whereas, in The Technic Civilization Saga, the last Earth Book installment is followed by "The Star Plunderer," which might be historical fiction, and by "Sargasso of Lost Starships," which almost certainly is. The Technic History definitely includes different kinds of narratives. It opens with:

a tetralogy (four volumes about the Polesotechnic League);

a diptych (the two Avalonian companion volumes);

a trilogy (Young Flandry).