Friday 22 September 2023

The Technic History In Six Omnibus Volumes

Apart from a reissue of The Technic Civilization Saga, my current idea for republication of Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization would be two boxed sets:

Box I: LEAGUE AND EMPIRE
The Polesotechnic League
Avalon and Empire
The Earth Book of Stormgate

Box II: EMPIRE AND AFTER
Young Flandry and the Terran Empire
Captain Flandry of the Terran Empire
Admiral Flandry and the Post-Imperial Age

Box I covers:

the League
Ytrhians and the Terran Empire
all three

(Hloch's Earth Book introductions are written during the Imperial period even though the twelve works introduced are pre-Imperial.)

Box II covers three stages of Flandry's career and at least two (in fact four) historical periods.

Young Flandry... is a Flandry Trilogy with two non-Flandry sequels. Volume III of the Trilogy cameos the planet Aeneas which is developed fully in The Day Of Their Return. The series takes several unexpected turns.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Your proposal here might work esp. well as part of a COMPLETE COLLECTED WORKS OF POUL ANDERSON.

Attention should also be given to tracking down stories and essays by Anderson which has never yet been collected/republished.

See my "Uncollected Works of Poul Anderson" article.

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Sean: hear him! Hear him! 8-).

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

I try! (Smiles)

Ad astra! Sean