Second And Fortieth

In What Is Happening?, we mentioned Poul Anderson's "Wings of Victory" and "A Tragedy of Errors" as two sf stories in which the characters, having landed on what is to them a new planet, have to solve a mystery about what is going down in that planetary environment. We did not mention because it was not at that stage relevant that, within Anderson's Technic History, "Wings of Victory" is the second and "A Tragedy of Errors" is the fortieth of forty-three instalments. Thus, there are thirty-seven instalments between them. This is a long future history series, so long that there is no overt connection between these two stories. The first is about early interstellar exploration whereas the second is about survival after the Fall of the Terran Empire. Both belong in the same fictional history but we have to read some intermediate instalments to get with the connections. I know that most of you must know most of this by now but I still think that it is worthwhile to celebrate such a comprehensive future history series.