Stage IV
Heinlein: discovery of FTL and anti-age treatment and end of the Future History;
Anderson (1): a Galactic civilization and end of the Psychotechnic History;
Anderson (2): the Terran Empire;
Blish: end of Okie culture and flight of New York to the Greater Magellanic Cloud while the anti-matter-wielding Web of Hercules replaces Earthman culture in the Milky Way.
Stage V
Anderson (2): the Long Night;
Blish: cosmic collision, new creations and end of Cities In Flight.
Stage VI
Anderson (2): subsequent interstellar civilizations and end of Technic History.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Blish has "antiagathics" in his Okie books. So I think you could have mentioned how Anderson's Technic civilization had "antisenescence" for prolonging human life spans. Yes, I realize "antisenescence" treatments only modestly prolonged human spans of life, to about age 110 at the most.
Ad astra! Sean
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