In The Trouble Twisters, what had been three different stories about David Falkayn are presented as Parts I-III. References to Master Beljagor, who had appeared in Part II, and to Martin Schuster, who had appeared in Part I, are written into Part III on the assumption that the reader has just read those Parts. Introductions, fictitiously written by Vance Hall, Noah Arkwright and Urwain the Wide-Faring, are added, thus expanding our perspective on Technic civilization.
In the Earth Book, collecting twelve works, introductions by Hloch are added, thus increasing our information about Technic civilization and, more specifically, about conditions on Avalon after the Terran War.
The Technic Civilization Saga, in seven volumes, presents all forty-three Technic History installments in chronological order of fictitious events, preserves the fictional introductions and even adds one more fictional introduction composed by its Compiler, Hank Davis.
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Kaor, Paul!
Of course older readers of the Technics stories first read them in a far more disjointed way, at different times and in different editions. My first experience with the Technic stories was from reading the Chilton Books edition of AGENT OF THE TERRAN EMPIRE. Next, I think, came paperback editions of SATAN'S WORLD and ENSIGN FLANDRY, then I obtained the Chilton Books versions of ENSIGN FLANDRY and FLANDRY OF TERRA in 1971. And I may have read the first version of "Margin of Profit" in a softcover collection of SF stories by different writers around the same time. Next I first read A CIRCUS OF HELLS and THE REBEL WORLDS around 1972. I definitely obtained the Doubleday editions of TRADER TO THE STARS and THE TROUBLE TWISTERS in 1978 or 1979.
Pretty chaotic, IOW!
Ad astra! Sean
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