The Prominence Of Nicholas Van Rijn

 

In The Technic Civilization Saga, Nicholas van Rijn emerges as the most prominent continuing character but gradually:

of the eleven instalments collected in Volume I, The Van Rijn Method, he features in the fourth, ninth, tenth and eleventh;

of the seven in Volume II, David Falkayn: Star Trader, van Rijn features in the first, cameos in the second which introduces his trader team, features in the fourth and co-features with the trader team in the fifth and seventh;

of the six in Volume III, Rise Of The Terran Empire, they all make their final appearance in the first.

Van Rijn also cameos in one Old Phoenix short story which means that he appears in a total of eleven works.