collects 12 of the 43 installments of Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization;
adds 12 introductions and 1 afterword ingeniously derived from the background details of the Ythrian novel, The People Of The Wind;
overlaps by 7 installments with the 11 collected in The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume I, The Van Rijn Method;
both begins and ends with two Ythrian short stories;
completes the Polesotechnic League series in the intervening eight installments;
mentions Ythri in the third installment and places Nicholas van Rijn in an Ythrian spaceship in the tenth installment;
includes both the first short story and the first novel about Nicholas van Rijn;
introduces Adzel;
discloses important information about David Falkayn's dealings with both Merseia and Mirkheim;
even follows up on Ivanhoe, the first planet where we saw Falkayn in action.
I have said it all before but I can never get enough of the Earth Book. No other future history series that I know of has anything like it.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And what happened on Ivanhoe in later centuries? The only times we see that planet was in "The Three-Cornered Wheel" and "The Season of Forgiveness."
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Ivanhoans join Supermetals.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I did think of that. But I was thinking more of Ivanhoe itself. What was it like by Dominic Flandry's time? We don't know.
Ad astra! Sean
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