EARTH BOOK And SAGA

I keep saying this because it keeps going round in my head. Take the twelve Technic History instalments that are collected in The Earth Book Of Stormgate, remove the last five (put them in later volumes), then add, in their appropriate chronological positions:

the previously uncollected "The Saturn Game";

the first two of the three instalments that had been collected as The Trouble Twisters;

the first of the three that had been collected as Trader To The Stars -

- and you have transformed the Earth Book into The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume I, The Van Rijn Method.

The Man Who Counts, which we are currently rereading, is one of the seven instalments that are common both to the Earth Book and to the Saga, Volume I. I have The Man Who Counts in both of these collections although not as a separate volume and we will resume rereading probably tomoz.

The holiday period continues with events planned for next weekend.

Addendum: I tell a lie. I find upstairs a copy of Poul Anderson, War Of The Wing-Men (London, 1976). This is an alternative title of The Man Who Counts and this London edition has the attached cover.