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In "Marius" we meet Stephen Rostomily as already a combat veteran in a ravaged Europe, where even the basic necessities of life are scarce – and at that, Europe is relatively fortunate, with Russia and China having been reduced to "howling cannibals". Yet in reading "The un-man" we find that that ravaged world had been able to embark on a full-scale colonization of Mars, quickly enough for Rostomily to have spent most of his adult life there. Knowing what we know now about space programs and how much they cost, this is utter nonsense – unless, within a decade or so of the world-destroying war, this timeline managed to achieve anti-gravity or another miracle way of jumping at a low cost out of Earth's gravity well. Which is also highly implausible, to say the least. Otherwise, it is very unlikely that anyone would have conceived of spending scarce resources on space flight, and even the first Lunar landing would have had to wait until much later than 1969.
197:, and is indeed in many ways antithetical to it). About 2170, the Humanists seize control of Earth, withdraw from the Solar Union, and abolish the Psychotechnic Institute. The Humanist regime quickly becomes unpopular, and is ended by a popular rebellion aided by Mars and Venus. However, the Psychotechnic Institute is not revived, and, in its absence, technic civilization becomes gradually extremist which results in a new dark age starting during the 24th century. 643: 142:, psychodynamics can be used to predict and guide the future course of social evolution. An organization known as the Psychotechnic Institute is founded during the 1970s that uses psychodynamics to influence government policy and popular attitudes, with the goal of redirecting society towards greater rationality and internationalism. The Psychotechnic Institute assists a reborn 28: 210:
The perception of human history as composed of civilizations which develop, flourish, and disintegrate, followed by a dark age and the beginning of a new civilization, was also the basis of Anderson's later future history with the Polesotechnic League followed by the Terran Empire. Specifically, the
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Reviewer Vincent Carter noted that "Like much of the Science Fiction written previous to the advent of actual space programs, Poul Anderson's early future history grossly underestimated the cost in money and material resources of even the smallest and shortest venture outside Earth's atmosphere.(…)
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By the late 1950s, Anderson's political beliefs had altered to the extent that he was uncomfortable with the political philosophy implied by the series, and he abandoned it. In particular, he had reversed his earlier strong endorsement for the
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during the early 1980s, to capitalize on Anderson's better-known Polesotechnic League future history. Anderson published 21 novels, novellas and short stories set in this future between 1949 and 1957, with a 22nd published in 1968.
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situation depicted in "Brake" - with the protagonists managing heroically to delay, but unable to prevent, the inevitable destructive ending of their civilization - is similar in some respects to the
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Vincent B. Carter, "Space Fiction and Space Fact" in Jane Crowne (Ed.) "A Big Step for Humanity? Looking back at Neil Armstrong after the passage of three decades", 1999
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Eleven of the stories of the Psychotechnic League series occur before the Second Dark Ages, and eleven occur after; none occur during the Second Dark Ages.
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travel that results in interstellar colonization and commerce, and the creation of the Stellar Union and its enforcement agency, the Coordination Service.
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Anderson did not write the stories in chronological order. He included a series timeline in the Winter 1955 issue of
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wrote a new prologue that was added to the series' republication during the 1980s and formally transformed it from
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in 1956 (in our world he died in 1969), and the assumption of power by a younger, less cautious
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under the title "The Tinkler"; "The Green Thumb" was published in Ivan Howard's 1964 anthology
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By the late 22nd century, the Psychotechnic Institute becomes a victim of its own success. An
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The Second Dark Ages end during the 27th century, followed by the discovery of a form of
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The Fox, the Dog and the Griffin: A Folk Tale Adapted from the Danish of C. Molbeck
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During the war's aftermath, a science known as psychodynamics is created. Like
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Of the six stories not collected in "The Psychotechnic League" trilogy, "
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grow in importance, the United Nations is succeeded by the Solar Union.
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The first component of the series to achieve book publication was
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in three volumes which included all the stories in the timeline.
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from our own history as the (premature) death of U.S. President
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published by Beacon Books in 1959. "Un-Man" was included in
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during the late 1950s that nearly destroys civilization.
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The Winter of the World / The Queen of Air and Darkness
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Index

Psychotechnic League

future history
science fiction
Poul Anderson
Sandra Miesel
Startling Stories
United Nations
world government
nuclear war
Sandra Miesel
future history
alternate history
divergence point
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Cold War
nuclear war
Isaac Asimov
psychohistory
United Nations
Rio de Janeiro
world government
space colonization
Moon
terraforming
Solar System
Venus
Mars
Asteroid Belt

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