The Earth Book In The Technic History

As regular readers of this blog already know, the first section of Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, corresponding only to the first three of the seven volumes of Baen Books' omnibus collection, The Technic Civilization Saga, comprises:

The Polesotechnic League Tetralogy

Trader To The Stars

The Trouble Twisters

Satan's World

Mirkheim

Two Ythrian Volumes

The People Of The Wind

The Earth Book Of Stormgate (which is also the 5th League volume)

Three Other Stories

"The Saturn Game"

"The Star Plunderer"

"Sargasso of Lost Starships"

The three stories could be collected to be read between League and Ythrians although "The Saturn Game" is pre-League.

The Earth Book illuminates earlier volumes because it collects:

the first Nicholas van Rijn story, "Margin of Profit," which was quoted, in a passage adapted as an introduction, at the beginning of the second of the three stories in Trader To The Stars;

"The Season of Forgiveness" which is a sequel to the first of the three stories in The Trouble Twisters;

"How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" which expands on Adzel's student days which were first mentioned in the third story in The Trouble Twisters;

"Esau," The Man Who Counts "Day of Burning," and "Lodestar" which shed light on different aspects of Mirkheim;

"Wings of Victory," "The Problem of Pain," "Wingless" and "Rescue on Avalon" which are prequels to The People Of The Wind;

"A Little Knowledge" which is of more general significance.