Mirian "Banner" Abrams:
"'...I don't want to begin again with another Ramnuan. Our sisterhood, Yewwl's and mine, was wonderful, I'll always warm my soul by it, but it came to be when we were young, and that is gone.'" (p. 187)
Nature comments as the text continues:
"The forest soughed. Wind boomed through the canyon." (pp. 187-188)
Dominic Flandry responds:
"'...we make one crackling hell of a team. A pity if we disbanded. Would you like to continue?'" (p. 188)
Youth lost is a perennial Andersonian theme. See his Time Patrol series and, earlier in the Technic History, Mirkheim.
The wind really is always with us.
Continue the Flandry series with a new Flandry-Abrams sub-series, as implied here? That did not happen although I would have preferred it to some of what Poul Anderson did write later but I cannot tell a man what to write, especially not retroactively.
A Stone In Heaven is the first of six works collected in Flandry's Legacy but we know that this is the seventh and concluding volume of Baen Books' The Technic Civilization Saga. Whatever else happens, the Technic History approaches its end which happens to be millennia after Flandry's lifetime.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Strictly speaking, Technic civilization came to an end with the fall of the Empire and beginning of the Long Night. The cultures/civilizations seen in the four post-Imperial were no longer Technic.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
The last four stories conclude the Technic History series although they are set later than Technic civilization. "The Saturn Game" opens the series although it is set before Technic civilization.
Paul.
Kaoe, Paul!
True, what you said about "The Saturn Game," albeit its timing must have been very close to what Commonwealth and Imperial historians considered its beginnings.
Ad astra! Sean
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