Current And Imminent Rereading

"Virgin Planet."

So far, while rereading the FTL period of Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History - this period begins with "Gypsy" - we have found no explicit reference back to any of the events of the pre-FTL period that had concluded with "Brake."

When we read:

"The man felt sick. His whole culture was conditioned against war, it remembered its past too well." (p. 103)

- we reflect that this accords with the anti-war ethos of "Un-Man" but, again, there is no explicit reference either to the UN world government or to any of the individual protagonists or particular events of that period. 

Our rereading has brought us to the point where Davis' rebels besiege Ship city. Only ten pages of text remain. After "Virgin Planet" in the Chronology, we find:

"Teucan"

"The Pirate"

"The Peregrine" [novel not collected here]

"Entity"

"Symmetry"

The Third Dark Ages

"The Chapter Ends"

"Teucan" is minor but we will reread it for its future historical references.

"The Pirate" is important as introducing Trevelyan Micah.

My copy of The Peregrine is packed for moving.

(The Peregrine, my personal favourite of this series, has been reread a lot.)

I do not see that "Entity" belongs in this series.

"Symmetry" has a fully relevant background, even mentioning Nerthus.

(I had thought that "Symmetry" could not fit but maybe it can. More later.)

It is argued that "The Chapter Ends" does not fit.

We will reread all this stuff anyway.

Of my copies of The Technic Civilization Saga, Volumes IV and V are larger format and therefore have not been packed yet so I will keep them out for rereading. They collect:

IV, the Young Flandry Trilogy;

V, the two non-Flandry instalments in the Flandry period;

the first four of the eight Captain Flandry instalments.

We can probably find something there to discuss while other volumes are inaccessible. There will also probably be a gap in Internet access.

(The Imperial Stars has the same contents as Young Flandry but a much better cover.)