The Polesotechnic League period of Poul Anderson's Technic History begins in
The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume I, and ends with the first instalment in Volume III and has three novels whereas the Terran Empire period begins in Volume III and ends at the mid-point of Volume VII and has either eight or eleven novels depending on whether we include the three Dominic Flandry novellas (?) that were included in collections but had also been long enough to be published as separate volumes. I acknowledge that some prose fictions are longer than short stories but shorter than novels but am not clear on the uses of the words, "novella" and "novelette."
That's all for now, folk.
Addendum:
"Hunters of the Sky Cave"/We Claim These Stars! is long enough to count as a short novel. I have a copy somewhere.
"A Message in Secret" is only 57 pages in Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire, far too short.
"A Plague of Masters"/Earthman, Go Home! might be long enough.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I would date the Polesotechnic League as having arisen by or not long before AD 2200, using my revision of Miesel's Techic Chronology. And as having wholly disintegrated by or soon after 2600.
Both THE PLAGUE OF MASTERS and HUNTERS OF THE SKY CAVE are well over 100 pages in the versions I have. That's long enough for them to be at least short novels.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
By that count, 10 Empire novels.
Paul.
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