Monday, 12 May 2025

Ythrians And Human Beings

Narrative threads overlap. Ythrians and human beings interact not only in their joint colonization of Avalon but also in:

first contact on Ythri;
the exploration of Avalon;
the transportation of van Rin and Coya to Mirkheim;
the later defence of Avalon;
a single Ythrian on Aeneas during a later crisis involving Merseians.

Ythrians and Merseians are distinct narrative threads but nevertheless converge once in the later Imperial period. Everything presumably does interconnect either directly or indirectly and such interconnections are a particular feature of Poul Anderson's Technic History.

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And the Domain was alarmed by the rise of a Merseia dominated by an ideology of racial supremacism teaching contempt for all non-Merseian oxygen breathing races. Compared to the greater danger posed by the Roidhunate that made whatever disputes Domain and Empire still had look small and unimportant. So these two powers became allies with a common interest in opposing Merseia.

Hope this uploads.

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Yeah, the Merseians have a gift for making enemies...