People And Planets In MIRKHEIM

Not everything in Mirkheim is for the last time. We see David Falkayn's home planet, Hermes, for the first time and it reappears, although not as a major setting, in A Stone In Heaven.

A large cast of characters appear for their first and only time in Mirkheim as Poul Anderson shows us every kind of character and point of view. The one-off characters include Eric Tamarin, son of Sandra Tamarin and Nicholas van Rijn, named after Eric Wace who had been on Diomedes with Sandra and van Rijn.

We see the Baburites for their second and last time and their planet, Babur, for its first and last time. 

Sandra Tamarin and Coya Conyon/Falkayn each appear for their second and last time. Nicholas van Rijn makes his tenth appearance in the Technic History and is also seen, outside this series, in the inter-universal inn, the Old Phoenix.

Mirkheim is a comprehensive culmination of the Polesotechnic League sub-series whereas the Terran Empire sub-series lacks such a culmination.