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:
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
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