Publication Histories II

 

Asked to write a story for an original juvenile sf anthology, Poul Anderson wrote about a human-Ythrian interaction on Avalon.

Asked to write a story for another such anthology, he wrote about Adzel's student days on Earth which had already been alluded to when Adzel was introduced in the third David Falkayn story which was also the first trader team story.

For Boys' Life, he wrote about another Avalonian human-Ythrian interaction, this time involving David Falkayn's grandson, and also about Christmas on the planet Ivanhoe which Falkayn had visited previously.

Asked to contribute to a John W. Campbell memorial anthology, he wrote about Falkayn's confrontation with Nicholas van Rijn in an Ythrian spaceship at Mirkheim.

Asked to contribute a story on the theme of "redemption," he wrote a post-Imperial Technic History instalment.

Thus, the Technic History would have been poorer without these six differently sourced stories.