Wednesday 28 August 2024

Another Rearrangement Of The Technic History

I did not think that it would be possible to rearrange Poul Anderson's Technic History yet again but I am now thinking of:

The Earth Book Of Stormgate following the Polesotechnic League Tetralogy and The People Of The Wind;

The Long Night following the Flandry period and The Night Face;

The Saturn Game as a very short volume to be read first.

Thus:

the Tetralogy and the Earth Book tell the story of the League;

The People Of The Wind introduces Ythrians, Avalon and the Terran Empire;

the Earth Book recounts how Ythrians were contacted and Avalon was explored, then colonized;

The Long Night recounts how the Terran Empire was founded;

The Night Face and The Long Night recount what happened after the Empire.

That is everything with minimum reorganization of the original book publication order.

Addendum: Correction. That was not everything. It left out "Sargasso of Lost Starships" which I suppose would have to be included in The Long Night after "The Star Plunderer."

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And the original texts of the five Technic stories Anderson revised or incorporated into another story should also be preserved. For readers convenience I listed them below.

"Margin of Profit"
"The White King's War"
"Tiger By The Tail"
"Honorable Enemies"
"Warriors From Nowhere"

Also, at long last, I finally got a copy of Stirling's TO TURN THE TIDE yesterday! I look forward to reading it after I finish Chambers' THE KING IN YELLOW (forty more pages to go).

Ad astra! Sean