A Dynamic Future History Series

In the fictional chronological order of Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, "The Star Plunderer" is followed by "Sargasso of Lost Starships" which is followed by The People Of The Wind. For this reason, these three works, to be read in this order, fill the second half of The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume III, Rise Of The Terran Empire. These three instalments fill the gap between the Polesotechnic League and the colonization of Avalon on the one hand and the Dominic Flandry period of the Terran Empire on the other hand. David Falkayn connects League and Avalon. 

If the Technic History were to be republished in its, necessarily slightly amended, original publication order, then I suggest that a collection of "The Saturn Game," "The Star Plunderer" and "Sargasso..." would have to be inserted between Mirkheim and The People Of The Wind. "The Saturn Game" is out of chronological order but that cannot be helped. It does not fit in anywhere else. (Of course it does come at the beginning of The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume I, The Van Rijn Method.) However, this proposed reading order would put "The Star Plunderer" and "Sargasso..." where they belong immediately before The People Of The Wind. The difference, of course, is that, in the original order, The Earth Book Of Stormgate comes after The People Of The Wind whereas, in The Technic Civilization Saga, Hloch's Afterword to the Earth Book comes immediately before "The Star Plunderer"! This shifting back and forth between perspectives generates the impression that the Technic History is continually forming and reforming itself before our eyes. It is a dynamic future history series.