Thursday, 19 February 2026

Six Instalments

The Peregrine, CHAPTER II.

Peregrine Joachim Henry tells the Nomad Captains' Council:

"'I even talked my way into the Cordy office on Nerthus, and got a look at their Galactic Survey records." (p. 11)

The Nomads were founded in "Gypsy."

Nerthus was introduced in two stages in "The Acolytes" and "The Green Thumb."

The Coordination Service office on Nerthus had to deal with a Galactic Survey man in Virgin Planet.

Coordinator Trevelyan Micah, having already appeared in the chronologically earlier "The Pirate," will shortly join the Nomad ship, the Peregrine, when it stops at Nerthus.

Thus, these six instalments form a closely integrated future history series. They are not the whole of this second part of the Psychotechnic History but they are most of it.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Paul!

Just mentioning VIRGIN PLANET made me smile, one of the best and most satisfactory of the Psychotechnic stories.

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Didn't the 'sisters' throw dice to decide who got the hero?

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

That's exactly what the Whitley clone sisters did, whoever won two out of three throws of the dice got Bertie! (Laughs)

Ad astra! Sean