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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. One of the great modern works of the imagination, this book tells of the trader van Rijn and the adventurer Falkayne; it rounds and completes the future history o... more »f the Polesotechnic League that spans four thousand years of Earth's interstellar empire; and it chronicles Mankind's encounters with the great-winged Ythri, who kept this record at far Stormgate. Behold these annals from the Discovery on through the World-Taking. They are garnered from different trees, and few of them will seem at once to grow toward the same sun. Yet they do. This is the tale, told afresh, of how Avalon came to settlement and thus our choth to being. This is the tale as told by Terrans, who walk the Earth.
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