Reconciliations

At the end of "The Sharing of Flesh," Evalyth frees the man who had killed her husband, saying:

"'Go home... Remember him.'" (p. 708)

At the end of "Rescue on Avalon," Jack Birnham tells an Ythrian that he is not an enemy, adding:

"'I'll be proud to call you my friend!'"

-Poul Anderson, "Rescue on Avalon" IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, March 2011), pp. 307-322 AT p. 322.

Two short stories with neat happy endings. There are others. Poul Anderson's Technic History features several long drawn out and complicated conflicts but is also peppered with several shorter pieces such as these two. What is good about The Technic Civilization Saga is that they are all there together in seven omnibus volumes.