The Later Technic History

The second main part of Poul Anderson's Technic History lacks either a single unifying editor comparable to Hloch or a succession of human commentators as in The Trouble Twisters. Donvar Ayeghen seems to receive the baton from Hloch but then does not deliver. No reason why he should: his introduction to a single extract from John Reeves's Memoirs is simply the opening passage of "The Star Plunderer," which had been written and published a long time before the Technic History was conceived of. Someone who knows the history of Dennitza opens and closes A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows but that is just a single planet. We start to get a sense of the history of Merseia alongside that of Terra but not on the same scale as the Ythrians. The Chereionites would have had records of their own much longer history, including Aycharaych's dealings with the Merseians, but Flandry ordered the bombardment of Chereion.

The first part of the Technic History is considerably richer in its historiography.