post-Chaos recovery
the Grand Survey
the Solar Commonwealth and the Polesotechnic League
the colonization of Avalon
the Time of Troubles
the Terran Empire
the Long Night
the Allied Planets
the period of the Commonalty
- yet concentrates on just two periods. Thus, in the seven-volume The Technic Civilization Saga, the Commonwealth and League begin in Volume I and end in Volume III while the Terran Empire begins in Volume III and ends in Volume VII.
It would have been an entirely different proposition if the author had pre-planned seven omnibus volumes and had then schematically distributed his nine historical periods equally throughout these volumes. The series grew unplanned and organically and consequently reads like real history. We get many details as well as a vast panorama.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
It was thus fortunate and very contingent that what originally began as two separate series were "impulsively" linked together in THE PLAGUE OF MASTERS.
Ad astra! Sean
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