Vastness And Detail

When blogging about Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, we can focus on:

the elaborate structure of the Technic History series with its alternative reading orders (although I have done this to death);

the vast sweep of history from the Solar System in the mid-twenty-first century to the edge of another spiral arm of the galaxy several millennia hence;

the major sub-series;

the layered narratives of that ultimate future historical collection, The Earth Book of Stormgate;

the wealth of detail in any particular instalment, most recently Ruadrath biology on Talwin in A Circus of Hells.

At present, we, editorially speaking, are rereading A Circus of Hells while always remembering its place in:

the Young Flandry Trilogy;

the Dominic Flandry series;

the Technic History as a whole.