decadent empire that grew out of the commerce of the earlier Polosotechnic League entrepreneurs. A smaller, six-book series on the Psychotechnic League explores the theme of maintaining freedom amidst increasing automation as humans chart their travels in space.
The High Crusade (1960) depicts a band of medieval knights outfoxes an alien spaceship that lands in their country and then returns to found a feudal empire in space. AndersonΓÇÖs later works, such as1989ΓÇÖs The Boat of a Million, provide a more gloomy vision of Earth history and the state of the Universe, but retains his conviction that we must persevere and struggle.
