Saturday, 26 April 2025

Human-Alien Interactions In The EARTH BOOK

Each of the twelve Technic History instalments collected in Poul Anderson's The Earth Book Of Stormgate is about human-alien interactions:

realizing that the large fliers on Ythri are intelligent;

understanding the crux of the Ythrian New Faith;

how does an impoverished Wodenite student survive on Earth?;

how will van Rijn defeat interstellar pirates?;

how Emil Dalmady interacts with Suleimanites and Baburites;

trading with Ivanhoans;

how will van Rijn and his companions survive among warring winged Diomedeans?;

unscrupulous human traders underestimate Trillians;

the trader team saves the Merseians;

Ythrians transport van Rijn to Mirkheim where the trader team teaches him that the many species bypassed or even exploited by Technic civilization are taking action;

human beings and Ythrians colonize Avalon (2).

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Given Adzel's size and bulk, he would need a lot more food than an impoverished human student!

Testing.

Ad astra! Sean