in Poul Anderson's Technic History, a climate reclamation project is to be begun on the planet Ramnu at the end of A Stone In Heaven but that project has to be suspended because of the Magnusson Rebellion in the sequel, The Game Of Empire;
Anderson's The Shield Of Time concludes as Manse Everard and Wanda Tamberly begin a holiday on the West Coast in early January 1990 AD and we might wish that we could see more of them but we do because the second section of "Death And The Knight," headed:
SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, 8 MARCH 1990
- opens as Everard rejoins Wanda in their suite overlooking the Golden Gate. He had received a phone call from Nick whom both met in The Shield... so this story is very much a sequel to that novel. We see just a little more of these characters before the series unfortunately ends.
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Kaor, Paul!
Ummmm, just a tiny error in the second paragraph.
Any series of stories has to eventually end, if only because their author died. I think the Time Patrol series do conclude with fewer unanswered questions and lacunae than what we see in the Technic stories. Also, Anderson wanted, again, to go on to other ideas and themes. He was not content to rest on his laurels!
Ad astra! Sean
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