Later still, Flandry is based on Irumclaw.
Wayland has no organic inhabitants but does have robots controlled by one human-made conscious computer.
Talwin has two intelligent species, hibernators and estivators.
Dido and Aeneas are in the Virgilian System in Sector Alpha Crucis. En route to that Sector, Flandry, commanding an Imperial ship, visits the inhabited planet, Shalmu. His Executive Officer is a Ferran.
Dido has three species that link to form a single composite intelligence.
Aeneas has no natives, was colonized by the Ancients and currently by human beings and is visited by a Chereionite and an Ythrian. Also, the mascots of the Aenean tinerans are the telepathic parasites that had destroyed the Ancient/Chereionite interstellar civilization.
The moral of the story: Poul Anderson keeps them coming.
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Kaor, Paul!
I agree! Compared with Anderson's Technic series, Asimov's FOUNDATION stories are so unsatisfactory. I find it hard to believe I was once such a fan of Asimov's stories as a boy. Was it because Asimov with big, sweeping ideas that then captured my imagination?
Ad astra! Sean
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