The Beginning Of A Future History

 

In Poul Anderson's The Earth Book Of Stormgate (1978), the first four stories are:

"Wings of Victory" (1972)

"The Problem of Pain" (1973)

"How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" (1974)

"Margin of Profit" (1956)

In The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume I (2009), the first five stories are:

"The Saturn Game" (1981)

"Wings of Victory"

"The Problem of Pain"

"Margin of Profit"

"How To Be Ethnic..."

Saga,Vol I, is a revised Earth Book. These few stories are a miniature future history series. "The Saturn Game" states that it is set in the mid-twenty-first century. Sandra Miesel's Chronology places "Wings..." in 2150, "The Problem..." in the twenty-fourth century and the remaining two stories in 2416. These last two are contemporaneous and can be read in either order. In "Wings...," a Grand Survey ship discovers Ythri and "The Problem..." refers to this discovery. This is already a future history series before the first mention of the League. The Ythrians provide historical continuity.