Multiple Narratives

Of the eleven Technic History instalments, including one novel, that are collected in The Technic Civilization Saga, Volume I, The Van Rijn Method, Hloch of Stormgate Choth on Avalon introduces the seven instalments (including that one novel) that had previously been collected with five others in The Earth Book Of Stormgate.

"The Saturn Game" is a third person narrative about a team of characters exploring the outer Solar System but with no viewpoint character.

"Wings of Victory" is a first person narrative by a character who remains in the orbiting Olga instead of descending to the surface of the newly discovered planet, Ythri, so that most of the narration is in the third person with one member of the landing crew as the viewpoint character.

In the framing passages of "The Problem of Pain," an unnamed first person narrator describes his conversation with Peter Berg on the planet Lucifer. The main story is a third person account of Berg's experience on Avalon with him as viewpoint character. 

"Margin of Profit" introduces Nicholas van Rijn but with Rafael Torres as the main viewpoint character in a third person narrative although, additionally, there are two short passages when, unusually, van Rijn, who is and remains the central character, also becomes the viewpoint character.

"How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" introduces Adzel but with James Ching as both viewpoint character and first person narrator.

"Esau" is a third person narrative with Emil Dalmady as viewpoint character both in the framing passages where Dalmady confronts van Rijn on Earth and in the main story which recounts Dalmady's experience on the planet, Suleiman.

Those are just six of the eleven but they are also the six with the most complicated narrative structures.