Series
Avalon (Technic Civilization)
Poul Anderson · 1 novel · 1 novelette · 4 short stories · 3 collections · 1973–1981
The People of the Wind is Poul Anderson's novel closing out the Polesotechnic League chapter of his Technic History, the sprawling future history that runs from early interstellar trade through the later Terran Empire. Set generations after trader-hero Nicholas van Rijn and his protege David Falkayn, it follows the frontier world of Avalon as war with the Ythrian alliance threatens the peace those earlier books built. It functions as a bridge, closing one era of the Technic History while setting up the later Terran Empire stories.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Avalon (Technic Civilization) at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s6
- 1980s3
Shape
1 novel · 1 novelette · 4 short stories · 3 collections
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 86% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book7 of 9 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Problem of Paindarkest · calmest
- The People of the Windbrightest
- Rescue on Avalonmost intense