Series
Nicholas Van Rijn
Poul Anderson · 3 novels · 2 novellas · 3 novelettes · 6 short stories · 1 collection · 1956–2009
Nicholas van Rijn is the swaggering, multilingual merchant-adventurer at the center of the early Polesotechnic League era of Poul Anderson's Technic History, a future where free-trading guilds, not governments, open up the galaxy. War of the Wing-Men, Trader to the Stars, Satan's World, and Mirkheim follow his schemes and expeditions as he outmaneuvers rivals, aliens, and his own guild. He anchors the earlier half of the Technic History's centuries-long timeline, with Dominic Flandry carrying the later half.
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
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Nicholas Van Rijn 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.
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By decade
- 1950s2
- 1960s6
- 1970s5
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s2
Shape
3 novels · 2 novellas · 3 novelettes · 6 short stories · 1 collection
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionaliensother star systemsfar futureadventurousadult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book9 of 15 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Mirkheimdarkest · most intense
- The Master Keybrightest · calmest