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The Earth Book of Stormgate 1-3 (Avalon:Technic Civilization) (Technic History)
The Earth Book of Stormgate 1-3 - Avalon:Technic Civilization - Technic History Author:Poul Anderson An omnibus collection book in the Future History of the Polesotechnic League series. Collects twelve stories that make up the final volume of Anderson's future history series. These final 12 stories chronicle the expansion of earthmen out into the inhabited galaxy, meeting alien races, the growth & decay of the first interstellar go... more »vernment, followed by the foundation of the first interstellar empire. The stories round and complete the future history of the Polesotechnic League that spans four thousand years of Earth's interstellar empire; and chronicles Mankind's encounters with the great-winged Ythri, who kept this record at far Stormgate: annals from the Discovery on through the World-Taking, garnered from different trees, and few of them will seem at once to grow toward the same sun. A Yrthian wrote the work his mother intended (after she, who wrote The Sky Book of Stormgate about their speices, died before she could do a human companion work) for a colony called Avalon, founded by both humans and Yrthians. This is the tale as told by Terrans, who walk the Earth. The tale, told afresh, of how Avalon came to settlement and thus our choth to being. The first story is first contact with Yrthians from the human point of view. The last two stories are incidents on Avalon itself. The stories cover not only all sorts of points in between but all sorts of places there. "How to Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" takes place on Earth; "The Man Who Counts" (aka "War Of The Wing Men") and "Season of Forgiveness" take place on planets appearing in no other story. Nicholas van Rijn and David Falkayn appear in some of the stories.
Contents:
A Chronology of Technic Civilization (1978) • essay by Sandra Miesel
Wings of Victory [Technic History] (1972) • novelette by Poul Anderson
The Problem of Pain [Avalon (Technic Civilization)] (1973) • novelette by Poul Anderson
How to Be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson [Technic History] (1973) • novelette by Poul Anderson
Margin of Profit [Nicholas Van Rijn] (1956) • novelette by Poul Anderson
Esau [Technic History] (1978) • novelette by Poul Anderson (variant of Birthright 1970)
The Season of Forgiveness [Technic History] (1973) • short story by Poul Anderson
The Man Who Counts [Nicholas Van Rijn] (1958) • novel by Poul Anderson (variant of War of the Wing-Men)
A Little Knowledge [Technic History] (1971) • novelette by Poul Anderson
Day of Burning [David Falkayn] (1967) • novelette by Poul Anderson (variant of Supernova)
Lodestar [Nicholas Van Rijn] (1973) • novelette by Poul Anderson
Wingless [Avalon (Technic Civilization)] (1973) • short story by Poul Anderson (variant of Wingless on Avalon)
Rescue on Avalon [Avalon (Technic Civilization)] (1973) • short story by Poul Anderson