Climax And Completion

Six successive Technic History volumes:

(i) three short stories about Nicholas van Rijn

(ii) three short stories about David Falkayn

(iii-iv) two novels about both

(v) one novel about Ythrians

(vi) twelve instalments about Ythrians, van Rijn, Falkayn and more

The twelve instalments are, obviously, The Earth Book Of Stormgate which "Spans, illuminates and completes the magnificent Future History of the Polesotechnic League."

To this day, I remain impressed by the way that this first section of the Technic History starts small and builds to its climax, a single volume, the Earth Book, that is a future history in its own right. That opening volume, (i), Trader To The Stars, a short trilogy about a single character, stands on its merits as a complete collection giving no indication of how much is still to come. And, of course, regular readers know that there is yet more to come again, ten further volumes, after the Earth Book.

An intricately structured future history series.