Future Histories By Poul Anderson With STL Interstellar Travel
Kith (two versions)
Rustum
Directorate
Rustum
The Federation world government sends Constitutionalist dissidents and later neo-Confucianists to Rustum, a planet of E Eridani. Over many centuries, several other exo-planets are colonized although Earth stops launching spaceships.
Directorate
The Directorate world government establishes scientific bases on a few extra-solar planets, including Mithras in the system of Groombridge 1830. After a century, the bases are discontinued but later the Directorate establishes extra-solar colonies.
New America follows Orbit Unlimited and overlaps with The Queen Of Air And Darkness And Other Stories. The overlap generates the impression that the Directorate stories are set in the same timeline as the Rustum History.
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Kaor, Paul!
There's also TALES OF THE FLYING MOUNTAINS, the last story of which, "Recruiting Nation" (along with the Prologue and Interludes) shows us the beginning of a different way of doing STL interstellar travel.
Some of the Psychotechnic stories, such as "Star Ship," also features STL travel.
I'm still rather sorry we have to conclude stories like "Home," "The Alien Enemy," "Time Lag," etc., can't really be considered part of the Rustum timeline.
Despite the fact I'm reading Solzhenitsyn's huge three volume novel MARCH 1917, the discussion of the Rustum stories has gotten me into rereading, in addition, ORBIT UNLIMITED.
Ad astra! Sean
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