"'...we can give Earth forty or fifty years more to mellow further before we show our noses there again. The boys'll be disappointed, like I said. But, what they gyre, learning how to wait things out is part of becoming a Kithman.'" (p. 122)
I could adjust to that kind of timescale. Imagine leaving Earth in 1939 and returning in 1989. We need a novel about a Kith or other STL trading ship completing two circuits from Earth to several extra-solar colonies and back. We would see Earth at the beginning, middle and end and each of the other planets twice: maximum change in several societies.
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Kaor, Paul!
Today happens to be the all too ominously named June 28th! Assuming something like the Kith had existed in 1914, a Kith ship leaving before June 28 and returning 100 years later might well find the crew horrified by the history of the past century.
I still can't help wondering what kind of world might be existing now if the Sarajevo Assassination had not occurred.
Ad astra! Sean
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