Friday, 8 November 2024

Technic History Overview

Poul Anderson's Technic History
Pre-Imperial
From: post-Chaos recovery in "The Saturn Game"

To: the Troubles in "The Star Plunderer"

Organization: The Polesotechnic League

Achievement: the spreading of Technic civilization to many colonized planets and other intelligent species

Imperial
From: the proclamation of the Terran Empire in "The Star Plunderer"

To: the post-Imperial Long Night in "A Tragedy of Errors"

Organization: Terran civil service and Navy

Achievement: some colonies are strong enough to survive the Long Night

Post-Imperial
From: the reincorporation of isolated colonies in The Night Face and "The Sharing of Flesh"

To: human civilizations in several spiral arms in "Starfog"

Organizations: the Allied Planets; the Commonalty

Achievement: the discovery of a new source of unprecedented wealth

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

For "organization" in the Imperial era section I would have included the Terran civil service and Navy, as well as the Intelligence Corps. And that last was a branch of the Navy, after all.

Ad astra! Sean