Colonization of Dennitza.
2406
David Falkayn born noble on Hermes, a breakaway human grand duchy.
2416
"Margin of Profit" (ASF, September, 1956) [van Rijn]
"How to Be Ethnic in One Easy Lesson" (in Future Quest, ed. Roger Elwood, Avon Books, 1974)
* * *
2433
"The Three-Cornered Wheel" (ASF, October, 1963) [Falkayn]
* * *
stories overlap
2420s
"A Sun Invisible" (ASF, April, 1966) [Falkayn]
"The Season of Forgiveness" (Boy's Life, December, 1973) [set on same planet as "The Three-Cornered Wheel"]
The Man Who Counts (Ace Books, 1978 as War of the Wing-Men, Ace Books, 1958 from "The Man Who Counts," ASF, February–April, 1958) [van Rijn]
"Esau" (as "Birthright," ASF, February, 1970) [van Rijn]
"Hiding Place" (ASF, March, 1961) [van Rijn]
* * *
stories overlap
2430s
"Territory" (ASF, June, 1963) [van Rijn]
"The Trouble Twisters" (as "Trader Team," ASF, July–August, 1965) [Falkayn]
"Day of Burning" (as "Supernova," ASF, January, 1967) [Falkayn]
Falkayn saves civilization on Merseia, mankind's future foe.
"The Master Key" (ASF, July, 1964) [van Rijn]
Satan's World (Doubleday, 1969 from ASF, May–August, 1968) [van Rijn and Falkayn]
"A Little Knowledge" (ASF, August, 1971)
The League has become a set of ruthless cartels.
* * *
2466
"Lodestar" (in Astounding: The John W. Campbell Memorial Anthology. ed. Harry Harrison. Random House, 1973) [van Rijn and Falkayn]
Rivalries and greed are tearing the League apart. Falkayn marries van Rijn's favorite granddaughter.
2456
Mirkheim. (Putnam Books, 1977) [van Rijn and Falkayn]
The Babur War involving Hermes gravely wounds the League. Dark days loom.
late 25th C
Falkayn founds a joint human-Ythrian colony on Avalon ruled by the Domain of Ythri. [same planet—renamed—as in "The Problem of Pain."]
26th C
"Wingless" (as "Wingless on Avalon," Boy's Life, July, 1973) [Falkayn's grandson]
"Rescue on Avalon" (in Children of Infinity. ed. Roger Elwood. Franklin Watts, 1973)
Colonization of Nyanza.
2550
Dissolution of the Polesotechnic League.
27th C
The Time of Troubles brings down the Commonwealth. Earth is sacked twice and left prey to barbarian slave raiders.
ca. 2700
"The Star Plunderer" (Planet Stories, hereafter PS, September, 1952)
Manuel Argos proclaims the Terran Empire with citizenship open to all intelligent species. The Principate phase of the Imperium ultimately brings peace to 100,000 inhabited worlds within a sphere of stars 400 light-years in diameter.
28th C
Colonization of Unan Besar.
"Sargasso of Lost Starships" (PS, January, 1952)
The Empire annexes old colony on Ansa by force.
29th C
The People of the Wind (New American Library from ASF, February–April, 1973)
The Empire's war on another civilized imperium starts its slide towards decadence. A descendant of Falkayn and an ancestor of Flandry cross paths.
30th C
The Covenant of Alfzar, an attempt at détente between Terra and Merseia, fails to achieve peace.
3000
Dominic Flandry born on Earth, illegitimate son of an opera diva and an aristocratic space captain.
3019
Ensign Flandry (Chilton, 1966 from shorter version in Amazing, hereafter AMZ, October, 1966)
Flandry's first collision with the Merseians.
3021
A Circus of Hells (New American Library, 1970, incorporates "The White King's War," Galaxy, hereafter Gal, October, 1969)
Flandry is a Lieutenant (j.g.).
3022
Degenerate Emperor Josip succeeds weak old Emperor Georgios.
3025
The Rebel Worlds (New American Library, 1969)
A military revolt on the frontier world of Aeneas almost starts an age of Barracks Emperors. Flandry is a Lt. Commander, then promoted to Commander.
3027
"Outpost of Empire" (Gal, December, 1967) [not Flandry]
The misgoverned Empire continues fraying at its borders.
3028
The Day of Their Return (New American Library, 1973) [Aycharaych but not Flandry]
Aftermath of the rebellion on Aeneas.
3032
"Tiger by the Tail" (PS, January, 1951) [Flandry]
Flandry is a Captain and averts a barbarian invasion.
3033
"Honorable Enemies" (Future Combined with Science Fiction Stories, May, 1951) [Flandry]
Captain Flandry's first brush with enemy agent Aycharaych.
3035
"The Game of Glory" (Venture, March, 1958) [Flandry]
Set on Nyanza, Flandry has been knighted.
3037
"A Message in Secret" (as Mayday Orbit, Ace Books, 1961 from shorter version, "A Message in Secret," Fantastic, December, 1959) [Flandry]
Set on Altai.
3038
"A Plague of Masters" (as Earthman, Go Home!, Ace Books, 1961 from "A Plague of Masters," Fantastic, December, 1960–January, 1961) [Flandry]
Set on Unan Besar.
3040
"Hunters of the Sky Cave" (as We Claim These Stars!, Ace Books, 1959 from shorter version, "A Handful of Stars," Amz, June, 1959) [Flandry and Aycharaych]
Set on Vixen.
3041
Interregnum: Josip dies. After three years of civil war, Hans Molitor will rule as sole emperor.
3042
"The Warriors from Nowhere" (as "The Ambassadors of Flesh," PS, Summer, 1954)
Snapshot of disorders in the war-torn Empire.
3047
A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows (New American Library, 1975 from If, September/October–November/December, 1974) [Flandry]
Set on Dennitza, Flandry meets his illegitimate son and has a final tragic confrontation with Aycharaych.
3054
Emperor Hans dies and is succeeded by his sons, first Dietrich, then Gerhart.
3061
A Stone in Heaven (Ace Books, 1979) [Flandry]
Vice Admiral Flandry pairs off with the daughter of his first mentor from Ensign Flandry.
3064
The Game of Empire (Baen Books, 1985) [Flandry]
Flandry is a Fleet Admiral, meets his illegitimate daughter Diana.
early 4th millennium
The Terran Empire becomes more rigid and tyrannical in its Dominate phase. The Empire and Merseia wear each other out.
mid 4th millennium
The Long Night follows the Fall of the Terran Empire. War, piracy, economic collapse, and isolation devastate countless worlds.
3600
"A Tragedy of Errors" (Gal, February, 1968)
Further fragmentation among surviving human worlds.
3900
"The Night Face" (Ace Books, 1978. as Let the Spacemen Beware!, Ace Books, 1963 from shorter version "A Twelvemonth and a Day," Fantastic Universe, January, 1960)
Biological and psychological divergence among surviving humans.
4000
"The Sharing of Flesh" (Gal, December, 1968)
Human explorers heal genetic defects and uplift savagery.
7100
"Starfog" (ASF, August. 1967)
Revived civilization is expanding. A New Vixen man from the libertarian Commonalty meets descendants of the rebels from Aeneas.
Although Technic Civilization is extinct, another—and perhaps better—turn on the Wheel of Time has begun for our galaxy. The Commonalty must inevitably decline just as the League and Empire did
before it. But the Wheel will go on turning as long as there are thinking minds to wonder at the stars.
* * *
Poul Anderson was consulted about this chart
but any errors are my own.
THE END
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