Trader To The Stars
"Hiding Place": Le Matelot, who quotes Shelley
"Territory": an extract from the first van Rijn story, not collected here
"The Master Key": a longer quote from the same poem by Shelley
The Trouble Twisters
"The Three-Cornered Wheel": Vance Hall, Commentaries on the Philosophy of Noah Arkwright
"A Sun Invisible": Noah Arkwright, An Introduction to Sophontology
"The Trouble Twisters": the diary of Urwain the Wide-Faring (about meeting Noah Arkwright)
The three "Arkwright" essays are not introductions but works in their own right. In any case, this shows that fictional introductions are a big part of the Technic History and not just of the Earth Book.
Of the six remaining works in The Technic Civilization Saga, Volumes I-III:
"The Saturn Game" and "The Star Plunderer" each already came with a fictional introduction;
Satan's World, Mirkheim and The People of the Wind do not have introductions;
the Earth Book Compiler, Hank Davis, added an appropriate introduction for "Sargasso of Lost Starships."
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteMaybe that Introduction by Hank Davis for "Sargasso" was not really needed. IIRC, we speculated "Sargasso" was best understood as a fictional story written centuries later and set in the Early Empire. It might have been enough if Davis had done that.
Ad astra! Sean