Chunderban Desai:
summarizes the Terran Empire section of the Technic History to date in his conversation with Uldwyr;
introduces Aycharaych in his conversation with the latter;
introduces Aeneas in his conversation with Peter Jowett;
learns about Cosmenosis in his conversation with Tatiana Thane;
resolves the immediate crisis in his concluding conversation with Ivar Frederiksen and Tatiana Thane;
summarizes John K. Hord's cyclical theory of history in his conversation with Dominic Flandry in a later volume.
Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization is packed with characters appearing only once or twice but making significant contributions who should not be overshadowed by the Big Three.
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Kaor, Paul!
And it still frustrates me that the best summary we have of Hord's work is found only in the works of Poul Anderson! Esp. Anderson's article "Concerning Future Histories," in the Fall 1979 issue of the BULLETIN OF THE SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS OF AMERICA.
Besides us, there can't be many people who have copies of that issue of the BULLETIN!
Ad astra! Sean
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