Thursday 2 May 2024

Reissuing The Technic History

What I really want to post about is Poul Anderson's Technic History but we can't stay on that all the time. This future history series could be reissued, in paperback or hardback, in five boxed sets:

I The Polesotechnic League Tetralogy
II The Saturn Game and other stories, The People Of The Wind and The Earth Book of Stormgate
III The Young Flandry Trilogy and its two sequels, the sequels in a single volume
IV Captain Flandry in three volumes
V Admiral Flandry (two volumes) and After the Empire (one)

Imagine reading all that in that order for the first time or after a very long gap.

But the chronologically ordered The Technic Civilization Saga also exists and it makes sense to read the whole series in the two different orders at different times.

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Any complete recollecting of the Technic stories should include in the volume with the four post-Imperial stories the original of the six works Anderson revised or expanded.

"Margin of Profit"
"The White King's War"
"Tiger By The Tail" (A CIRCUS OF HELLS)
"Honorable Enemies"
"Warriors From Nowhere"
"A Twelve Month And A Day" (THE NIGHT FACE)

But maybe these original texts deserve a separate volume?

Ad astra! Sean

Sean M. Brooks said...

Drat! I was too hasty! I should have placed A CIRCUS OF HELLS after "The White King's War."

Sean