It was during the late 1990's that Sector 23 starts getting its story told. It is an odd place, with interesting characters. Most of them have histories that transcend the Sector itself, going back to far before the time that the first stories came to written form. The Sector 23 Series begins with this collection of characters all on a 40-acre plot of land, and we come to learn a little bit about their idiosyncrasies and histories. For example, there's Hector, the rambling immigrant from Cuba. Yzarc, the insane hero who stands up for all that shouldn't make sense. And the duplicitous Xenonites and their secretive spies.
But there's change in the air. By the telling of "The Search for the Xenonite Spy," the characters start to realize that they are the part of something big- that there are greater entities at work than they and the reader may have originally thought. After all, it's not every day that a story ends with a Xenonite Spy escaping a local intelligence force only to be gunned down by a higher power. Especially on a fairly normal planet like earth.
It is at this point that our friend the Narrator begins to explain the legend of a certain Land of the Tsetses. Apparently, the denizens of Sector 23 are only a tiny fragment of a larger plot involving countless galaxies and rulers. And somehow, we are to accept the information that a legendary land named after a fly in northern Africa forms the keystone to all that is happening.
Without further ado, the Narrator begins to tell the story of the past, the story of how things became the way they are now, by means of the History of a Galaxy series. When this series is finished, and the history of the Milky Way is accounted for, the reader will be back on the current time line- at which point, all terror will break loose, and the events and plans of the last 2000 years will suddenly begin to wind down to a final dramatic climax.
Amos Z