Tuesday 5 December 2023

THE MAN WHO COUNTS, Ythrians And MIRKHEIM

Sandra Tamarin: 

"'Oh, I've stopped being angry at Nick van Rijn.'"
-Poul Anderson, The Man Who Counts IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, March 2011), pp. 1-291 AT Prologue, Y minus 24, p. 7.

Sandra met van Rijn in The Man Who Counts which is collected in The Earth Book of Stormgate. So far, then, Mirkheim, or particular passages within it, have been directly connected with four of the twelve Technic History instalments collected in the Earth Book:

"Lodestar"
"Day of Burning"
"Esau"
The Man Who Counts

Next:

"...the splendor of an Ythrian on the wing...'"
-Mirkheim, VI, p. 109.

Five Earth Book instalments feature Ythrians, one other refers to them and all are fictitiously introduced by an Ythrian.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Anderson was fond of linking stories in a series with one another! More so than some other SF writers, IMO.

Ad astra! Sean