Kith Town stood alone before a city grew around it.
750 years after the departure of Envoy, the region of central North America that includes Kith Town was ruled by the Vicar of Isen. See here.
In the time of Kenri's grandparents, centuries dead, the Town was surrounded by bustling commerce.
In his parent's time, it was surrounded by a bourgeois district.
In Kenri's time, the Town (here) is in a bad district and the Kith are oppressed by the Dominancy.
When Envoy returns, ten millennia later, Kith Town, surrounded by ruins, is empty except for robot caretakers and is rarely visited because it can be experienced in virtuals. See here.
Thus, a future history in a single novel.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I think it's reasonably safe to assume the periods when Kith Town was surrounded by a "bustling commerce" and then a "bourgeois" period were in times when the Dominancy was healthy and strong. And, yes, this summarizing of Kith Town's history shows us centuries after centuries of history passing by.
And one reason why Kith Town was so seldom visited by the time of "Envoy's" return was due to the Kith themselves being largely gone or extinct. Nothing merely mortal lasts forever.
Sean
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