Living History

Anderson's Technic History is such a living future history series that we, editorially speaking, find it possible to reflect on its contents and to write about them almost indefinitely. It always seems to be new and fresh. Volumes I-III are less than half of the total but are denser in content because the career of a single individual, Dominic Flandry, is more prominent in Volumes IV-VII. Volume I alone gives us van Rijn, Falkayn, Adzel, other Polesotechnic League merchants and two stories about contact with Ythrians whereas Volume IV comprises just three novels about Young Flandry, not that readers complain.

Meanwhile, here at Blog Central, we reread past history in Anderson's Rogue Swords which includes quotations from the writings of Ramon Muntaner, a participant in the events and a character in the novel. As we already know, Anderson's works span past, future and alternative histories and even a place where people from different histories can meet: a God's eye view or the next best thing. Winston Churchill drinks in the Old Phoenix Inn and we recently saw a look alike at a Forties Festival. 

I did not expect to begin this post with the Technic History and to end it with Churchill.

The Imperial Stars has the same contents as Young Flandry but a better cover.