Proto-

By a proto-series, we mean a story that is potentially the opening installment of a series. Thus, Poul Anderson's "Time Patrol" was a proto-series until Anderson wrote a second Time Patrol story. Of the five items indicated in the immediately preceding post, each is a part of its respective future history series:

(i) the Psychotechnic History;

(ii) -(v) the Technic History.

However, there can also be sub-series within such a series. Thus:

(i) is a proto-sub-series about Coordinators;

(ii) is the opening installment of the trader team sub-series;

(iii) is a passage in a novel;

(iv) is a proto-sub-series about Targovi and Diana Crowfeather as Intelligence agents;

(v) is a proto-sub-series about a Ranger.

Some of us would have appreciated a longer and more detailed Technic History.