Notes
Rise of the Terran Empire, a collection of Technic Civilization fiction by Poul Anderson.

Part 3 of The Technic Civilization Saga.

Contains:

19. Mirkheim (1977) [Nicholas Van Rijn]
20. Wingless (1973) [Avalon]
21. Rescue on Avalon (1973) [Avalon]
22. The Star Plunderer (1952) [Other Technic Stories]
23. Sargasso of Lost Starships (1952) [Other Technic Stories]
24. The People of the Wind (1973) [Avalon]

Also includes Descent into Empire, an introduction by Hank Davis and Chronology of Technic Civilization, a timeline by Sandra Miesel.

The stories are numbered to reflect the reading order suggested by Sandra Miesel's timeline.

Publisher’s Blurb – Lower Cover
Nicholas van Rijn, the most flamboyant member of the Polesotechnic League of star traders, could see dark times ahead. Fellow league members were using tactics verging on outright piracy, and others were all too eager to sell starships and high-tech weapons to alien barbarians. Even if Van Rijn and his right-hand man David Falkayn could find a way to stop this, the glory days of the League were over.

Hereafter, for its own protection against well-armed alien marauders, the Earth must maintain a strong military fleet. One charismatic man would found an empire that would learn nothing of the lessons history taught of the fates of earlier empires as it began annexing other star systems, whether they wanted to join the Terran Empire or not . . .

This is the third volume in the first complete edition of Poul Anderson's Technic Civilization saga.

Praise for Poul Anderson:

"One of science fiction's giants." – Arthur C. Clarke

"A Master!" – Robert Jordan

"Poul Anderson immerses you in the future. . . . Andreson puts you into a whole new world." – Larry Niven

"Poul Anderson . . . probably does more different things extremely well than anybody else in the world. A thorough grasp of language, history, science, and the human spirit make him a possession for all time, as the saying goes." – Harry Turtledove