Thursday 12 October 2023

Vixen And Ansa

The Game of Empire, CHAPTER EIGHT.

In this chapter, a woman named Helen Kittredge from the planet Vixen spends some of her Naval leave on the planet Ansa. This is a good triple reuse of information from previous instalments of a future history series -

Mirkheim: Henry Kittredge from Vixen on Mirkheim and Hermes, also onion soup a la Ansa;
"Sargasso of Lost Starships": the planet Ansa;
The People of the Wind: a spaceship named Ansa;
"Hunters of the Sky Cave": Kit Kittredge from Vixen in space and on Vixen;
The Game of Empire: Helen Kittredge from Vixen in space and on Ansa.

Finally, the central character of the concluding instalment of the Technic History is from New Vixen. Thus -

"Starfog": Daven Laure from New Vixen in space and on Kirkasant.

This rich Vixenite-Ansan narrative thread links six of the forty-three instalments of the Technic History.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I agree such linkages enriches the Technic series, and I like how Anderson did it in such an unobtrusive way.

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Very deft of Poul. Also economical.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

It was!

Ad astra! Sean