I Christian Brannock as a boy on Earth.
II Summary of the history of technology.
III Brannock as a man on Mercury.
IV Summary of early interstellar travel.
V Laurinda Ashcroft in England.
VI 1700 years after Laurinda.
VII Brannock as an upload on an exo-planet.
VIII Serdar and Naia on Earth.
IX Sol through hundreds of millions of years.
Consciousness through the galaxy. Evolving stars.
PART TWO is more complicated.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I remember not being satisfied with Chapter VII, the idea that only primitive forms of life were found on all other discovered planets. SOME, yes, but ALL of them? I boggled at that!
Ad astra! Sean
Anderson doesn't have to believe the 'Rare Earth' hypothesis to use it in one of many futures he writes.
Kaor, Jim!
Of course I agree! But I would also add that complex lifeforms don't have to arise only on terrestroid planets. I believe it's at least as equally likely to happen on non-terrestroid planets. Such as Suleiman in Anderson's story "Esau."
Ad astra! Sean
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