Friday, 21 April 2023

One More Summary

Technic History: League; Ythrians; Empire.
Opening tetralogy: League.
Two short stories: Empire.
The People of the Wind: Ythrians and Empire.
Earth Book: all three.
The rest: Empire and after; one more Ythrian.

This summary omits the opening story, "The Saturn Game."

The Empire does not appear in any of the twelve works collected in the Earth Book but the introductions and afterword are fictitiously written by an Ythrian in the aftermath of the events of The People of the Wind.

The opening tetralogy contains eight League instalments, including two novels, whereas the Earth Book collects another eight League instalments, including one novel. The Earth Book also both begins and ends with two Ythrian short stories. Thus, the Earth Book is a perfect summation of the Technic History, a perfectly constructed future history series.

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