Wednesday 13 July 2022

Parallel Histories

Robert Heinlein's Future History
Technological advances are followed by interplanetary travel.
Space travel is restored after the interregnum of the American Theocracy.
Methuselah's Children recounts a crisis for the Howard Families in the early days of the Covenant and of interstellar travel.
Later volumes describe the fate of the first interstellar ship and an interstellar civilization.
Later Lazarus Long novels introduce the multiverse (badly).

Poul Anderson's Technic History
Interplanetary exploration is followed by interstellar trade.
Social order is restored after the Time of Troubles.
The People Of The Wind recounts a crisis for Avalonians in the early days of the Terran Empire.
Next come the nine-volume Flandry Period and its single-volume sequel.
Nicholas van Rijn's presence in the Old Phoenix is an understated introduction of the multiverse.

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