Details And Connections

In a future history series, we can focus on details in a particular story or on the relationships between stories. Thus, "The Saturn Game," about exploration of a Saturnian moon in the twenty first century, is the first instalment in Poul Anderson's Technic History whereas "Starfog," about exploration of a globular cluster on the fringe of another spiral arm of the galaxy several millennia in the future, is the last instalment of the Technic History. These two stories are only indirectly connected:

a character in "The Saturn Game" was brought up as a Jerusalem Catholic;

Dominic Flandry meets a Wodenite Jerusalem Catholic priest in The Game of Empire;

descendants of rebels exiled by Flandry in The Rebel Worlds return in "Starfog";

Flandry was on a planet called Vixen in "Hunters of the Sky Cave";

in "Starfog," Daven Laure is from New Vixen.

Here is a visual detail that should be included in any screen adaptation. Liaw of the Tarns, Wyvan of the High Khruath, participates in a teleconference:

"Liaw sat silent for a space, during which the rest of them heard wind whistle behind him and saw a pair of his grandsons fly past. One bore the naked sword which went from house to house as a summons to war, the other a blast rifle."

-The People of the Wind, V, p. 494.

It would be valid to add a scene to explain the symbolism of the naked sword.