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."
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Maybe 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
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