Monday, 4 November 2024

An Alien

Poul Anderson, "The Green Thumb" IN Anderson, The Complete Psychotechnic League, Volume 3 (Riverdale, NY, July 2018), pp. 21-41.

"...there are so many races knocking around the Galaxy these days  - with more being discovered all the time - that nobody pretends to know them all." (p. 22)

This sentence definitely places the story not in an early stage of interstellar exploration of planetary systems close to Sol but in a much later period of regular travel throughout a populated Galaxy. The Psychotechnic History clearly has two inconsistent backgrounds that could have become separate series.

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