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The Technic Civilization

by Poul Anderson

 


 

1. “The Saturn Game”

Novella first published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. ci, No. 2, February 1981.

 

Note: stories 1-11 were most recently published in the collection The Van Rijn Method (2008), with an introduction you can read here: Planets and Profits.

 


2. “Wings of Victory”

Novelette first published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. lxxxix, No. 2, April 1972.

 


3. “The Problem of Pain”

Novelette first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Issue 261), February 1973.

 


4. “Margin of Profit”

The first Van Rijn story.

Novelette first published in Astounding Science Fiction, Vol. lviii, No. 1, September 1956. Revised version printed in The Earth Book of Stormgate, Berkley, 1978.

 

Should you want to read the original version of this story, you’re in luck.

 


5. “How to be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson”

Novelette first published in Future Quest (Roger Elwood, ed.), Avon, 1973.

 


6. “Three-Cornered Wheel”

The first Falkayn story.

Novelette first published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. lxxii, No. 2, October 1963.

 


7. “A Sun Invisible”

The second Falkayn story.

Novelette first published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. lxxvii, No. 2, April 1966.

 


8. “The Season of Forgiveness”

Short story first published in Boy’s Life, December 1973.

 


9. The Man Who Counts

The second Van Rijn story.

Novel first published as a 3-part serial in Astounding Science Fiction (Vol. lx, No. 6, February 1958; Vol. lxi, No. 1, March 1958; and Vol. lxi, No. 2, April 1958). Combined and republished as War of the Wing-Men by Ace, 1958. The author’s preferred title and text restored in The Man Who Counts, Ace, 1978

 

The online version of the collection The Van Rijn Method (2008) also contained an essay by Sandra Miesel that you can read here: The Man Who Counts and the Technic Civilization Series” (note that it contains spoilers to the story’s plot).

 


10. “Esau”

The third Van Rijn story.

Novelette first published as “Birthright” in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. lxxxiv, No. 6, February 1970. Reprinted with new title in The Earth Book of Stormgate, Berkley, 1978.

 


11. “Hiding Place”

The fourth Van Rijn story.

Novella first published in Analog Science Fact and Fiction, Vol. lxvii, No. 1, March 1961.

 


12. “Territory”

The fifth Van Rijn story.

Novella first published in Analog Science Fact and Fiction, Vol. lxxi, No. 4, June 1963.

 

Note: stories 12-18 were most recently published in the collection David Falkayn: Star Trader (2009), with an introduction you can read here: High Profits and High Adventure.

 


13. “The Trouble Twisters”

The third Falkayn story.

Novelette first published as “Trader Team” in a 2-part serial in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (Vol. lxxv, No. 5, July 1965; and Vol. lxxv, No. 6, August 1965). Combined and reprinted by Doubleday, 1966.

 


14. “Day of Burning”

The fourth Falkayn story.

Novella/novelette first published as “Supernova” in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. lxxviii, No. 5, January 1967. Reprinted in Beyond the Beyond, Signet, 1969; The Many Worlds of Poul Anderson (Roger Elwood and Poul Anderson, eds.), Chilton, 1974; and The Earth Book of Stormgate, Berkley, 1978.

 


15. “The Master Key”

The sixth Van Rijn story.

Novelette first published in Analog Science Fact and Fiction, Vol. lxxiii, No. 5, July 1964.

 


16. Satan’s World

The seventh Van Rijn, fifth Falkayn story.

Novel first published as a 4-part serial in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (Vol. lxxxi, No. 3, May 1968; No. 4, June 1968; No. 5, July 1968; and No. 6, August 1968). Combined and republished by Doubleday, 1969.

 


17. “A Little Knowledge”

Novelette first published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. lxxxvii, No. 6, August 1971.

 


18. “Lodestar”

The eighth Van Rijn, sixth Falkayn story.

Novelette first published in Astounding: The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology (Harry Harrison, ed.), Random House, 1973.

 


19. Mirkheim

The ninth Van Rijn, seventh Falkayn story.

Novel first published by Putnam, 1977.

 


20. “Wingless”

Short story first published as “Wingless on Avalon” in Boy’s Life, July 1973.

 


21. “Rescue on Avalon”

Short story first published in Children of Infinity (Roger Elwood, ed.), Franklin Watts, 1973.

 


22. “The Star Plunderer”

Novelette first published in Planet Stories, Vol. 5, No. 8, September 1952.

 


23. “Sargasso of Lost Starships”

Novella first published in Planet Stories, Vol. 5, No. 4, Jan 1952.

Sorry, but I do not have this story.

 


24. The People of the Wind

Novel first published as a 3-part serial in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact (Vol. xc, No. 6, Feb 1973; Vol. xci, No. 1, Mar 1973; and Vol. xci [erroneously printed xcii], No. 2, Apr 1973). Combined and republished by New American Library, 1973.

 


25. Ensign Flandry

The first Flandry story.

Novel first published by Chilton, 1966, HC.

 


26. A Circus of Hells

The second Flandry story.

First published as novella “The White King’s War” in Galaxy, Vol. 128, No. 6, August 1969. Expanded and reissued as A Circus of Hells, Signet, 1970.

 


27. The Rebel Worlds

The third Flandry story.

Novel first published by Signet, 1969.

 


28. “Outpost of Empire”

Novella first published in Galaxy, Vol. 26, No. 2, December 1967.

 


29. The Day of Their Return

The fourth Flandry story.

Novel first published by Doubleday, 1973.

 


30. “Tiger by the Tail”

The fifth Flandry story.

Novelette first published in Planet Stories, January 1951.

 


31. “Honorable Enemies”

The sixth Flandry story.

Novelette first published in Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, May 1951.

 


32. “The Game of Glory”

The seventh Flandry story.

Novelette first published in Venture, March 1958.

 


33. Mayday Orbit

The eighth Flandry story.

First published as novella “A Message in Secret” in Fantastic, December 1959. Expanded and republished as (and reprinted in) Mayday Orbit, Ace, 1961.

 


34. Earthman, Go Home!

The ninth Flandry story.

Novella first published as 2-part serial “A Plague of Masters” in Fantastic (Vol. 9, No. 12, December 1960; and Vol. 10, No. 1, January 1961). Combined and republished as (and reprinted in) Earthman, Go Home, Ace, 1961.

 


35. Hunters of the Sky Cave

The tenth Flandry story.

First published as novella “A Handful of Stars” in Amazing Stories, Vol. 33, No. 6 (Issue 343), June 1959. Expanded and republished as (and reprinted in) We Claim These Stars! (Ace “double novel” with Robert Silverberg’s The Planet Killers), 1959; and (under final title) in Agent of the Terran Empire, Chilton, 1965.

 


36. “The Warriors from Nowhere”

The eleventh Flandry story.

First published as short story “The Ambassadors of Flesh” in Planet Stories, Summer 1954. Reprinted under new title in Agent of the Terran Empire, Chilton, 1965.

 


37. A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows

The twelfth Flandry story.

Novel first published as a 2-part serial in Worlds of If, Vol. 22 (No. 7 [Issue 174], September/October 1974; and No. 8 [Issue 175], November/December 1974). Combined and republished as Knight Flandry, Severn House, 1980; and A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows, Signet, 1975.

 


38. A Stone in Heaven

The thirteenth Flandry story.

Novel first published by Ace, 1979.

 


39. The Game of Empire

The fourteenth Flandry story.

Novel first published by SFBC, 1985.

 


40. “A Tragedy of Errors”

Novella first published in Galaxy, Vol. 26, No. 3, February 1968.

 


41. The Night Face

First published as novella “A Twelvemonth and A Day” in Fantastic Universe, January 1960. Expanded and republished as Let the Spacemen Beware!, Ace, 1963 (f-209; “double novel” with Kenneth Bulmer’s The Wizard of Starship Poseidon); and The Night Face, Ace, 1978.

 


42. “The Sharing of Flesh”

Novelette first published in Galaxy, Vol. 27, No. 5, December 1968. Reprinted as “The Dipteroid Phenomenon” in Four for the Future, 1969, Macmillan.

 


43. “Starfog”

Novella first published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, Vol. lxxix, No. 6, August 1967.

 


 

Sandra Miesel’s Chronology of the Technic Civilization