Flandry describes the Terran Empire founded by Manuel Argos as the Indian summer of Technic civilization and his own period as its advanced autumn. Anderson's elegiac future vision follows Wells'. Terran aristocrats and their autumn echo the Eloi and the Sunset of Mankind just as Chereion with its dying sun recalls the Time Traveller's Further Vision.
The rest of "Hunters..." is set far away from Terra, mostly on the colony planet, Vixen. Flandry tells the Vixenite, Kit, that her frontier people will still be around:
"'...long after the Empire is a fireside legend.'" (p. 206)
It sounds as though the Empire is well on its way to that legendary status already.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
The Empire already well on the way to becoming legendary? Not surprising at all if the Founder, Manuel Argos, was already legendary during his lifetime!
Ad astra! Sean
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