League of Nations from 1920
United Nations (UN) from 1945
UN world government from 1965
Solar Union from 2105
Stellar Union from 2900
First Empire, some time after 3200
subsequent interstellar Empire(s)
Galactic civilization, fifty or sixty thousand years after the First Empire
The Empires are at odds with the politics of the rest of this future history series but are definitely stated to have existed in what is presented as the concluding instalment, "The Chapter Ends." The aims of the Psychotechnic Institute (founded 1975; suppressed 2170), lost for many millennia, were eventually retrieved by Galactic psychotechnicians.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Very obvious, where Earth Real diverged from Anderson's Psychotechnic timeline!
I'm still skeptical about including "The Chapter Ends" in the Psychotechnic series. It still reads like one of Anderson's early, standalone, non series, one off stories to me.
Merry Christmas! Sean
Sean,
I am assuming it was in Anderson's Chronology, otherwise Miesel would not have put it in hers. I think it makes a good longer term culmination despite the anomaly of those Empires with slaves.
Paul.
Sean: I think you're right -- it does read like early Anderson. Tho' you can see that imagination at work!
Kaor, Paul and Mr. Stirling!
Paul: Until/unless I track down that Psychotechnic chronology pub. by Anderson in STARTLING STORIES, and "Chapter" included in it, I'll remain unconvinced it belongs there.
And considering the chaotic zigzags human history shows us, I would not be surprised slavery comes to widely exist again in the future.
Mr. Stirling: Absolutely! "The Chapter Ends" is very much worth reading.
Merry Christmas! Sean
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