Assessing The Second Part Of The Psychotechnic History

Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History is unusual in splitting so neatly into two almost completely disconnected parts. In his later Technic History, Dominic Flandry's period incorporates multiple references back to Nicholas van Rijn's period.

In the second half of the Psychotechnic History:

"The Pirate" and The Peregrine make a good Trevelyan Micah two-parter;

they and "Gypsy" make a good Nomads-Coordinators trilogy;

Nerthus is a good unifying factor in six instalments;

"Symmetry" maybe leads in to the Third Dark Ages;

"The Chapter Ends" is a good conclusion;

other instalments add body to the future history.

It is all more than it seems.

A lunch break post.