Tuesday 1 February 2022

The Earth Book In The Saga

Recently this blog has become very focused on The Technic Civilization Saga, Volumes I-III, in general and on The Earth Book Of Stormgate in particular. We cannot stay there forever although we can certainly withdraw and return later as we have done before.

The Earth Book provides exactly half of the Technic History installments collected in Volumes I-III:

7 of 11 in Vol. I;
3 of 7 in II;
2 of 6 in III.

Volumes I-III collect 4 novels:

The Man Who Counts in I
Satan's World in II
Mirkheim and The People Of The Wind in III
 
The Man Who Counts is in the Earth Book.
Satan's World and Mirkheim conclude the Polesotechnic League Tetralogy.
The People Of The Wind, at the end of Vol. III, is the companion volume to the Earth Book, providing the background and context for Editor Hloch's Earth Book introductions and afterword.
 
Volumes I-III are like an extended Earth Book, incorporating texts that Hloch either did not have access to or regarded as too well-known to require inclusion.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I have a special fondness for THE MAN WHO COUNTS. Thinking about Old Nick always makes me smile!

Ad astra! Sean