Future Historical Richness

In the Technic History, we can read a single short story or an entire trilogy. Someone new to the series might read the entire The Technic Civilization Saga from beginning to end for the first time ever. We can focus on a single character or alternatively can stand further back and survey a sequence of events spanning centuries or millennia. The concluding four instalments in Flandry's Legacy do not mention Dominic Flandry because they are set in four different later periods but his legacy is evident, particularly in the very last story, "Starfog."

In The Day Of Their Return 3, we travel a long way with Chunderban Desai who:

recalls his dinner with Uldwyr;

spends more than a page and a half looking out across Nova Roma;

interviews Aycharaych, thus introducing that character to the readers;

plays the holograph of his interview with the merchant, Peter Jowett;

wisely decides to make further inquiries about the mysterious Aycharych.

The view of Nova Roma and the conversation with Jowett inform us about Aeneas, a planet as richly realized as Hermes, Avalon or Dennitza. Any planet warrants novelistic treatment even if it does not fill the novel although in fact Aeneas does fill The Day Of Their Return. The entire narrative is set on or under the surface of this single planet whereas some other novels in the series traverse several planets.