Sunday, 15 February 2026

Two Future Histories

Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic and Technic Histories have parallel structures:

Psychotechnic
World War III.
UN world government, then Solar Union.
The Second Dark Ages.
The Stellar Union.
The Third Dark Ages.
Galactic Civilization.

One story about post-War reconstruction.
No stories set during either Dark Ages.
One story (disputed) set in the Galactic Civilization.

Technic
The Chaos.
The Solar Commonwealth.
The Troubles.
The Galactic Empire.
The Long Night.
Civilizations in several spiral arms.

One Story about post-Chaos reconstruction.
One each during the Troubles and the Long Night.
One in the civilization of the Commonalty.

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