Sunday 4 June 2023

The Past In The Time Patrol Series: 1280 A.D.

Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
anti-Kublai revolutionary societies
Hojo family in Japan
Mongols unified only in theory
Russian princes
the Il-Khan Abaka in Baghdad
the Abbasid Caliphate in Cairo
Slave Dynasty in Delhi
Pope Nicholas III
Guelphs and Ghibellines in Italy
German Emperor Rudolph of Habsburg
French King Philip the Bold
English King Edward Longshanks
Dante Alighieri
Joannes Duns Scotus
Roger Bacon
Thomas the Rhymer

A Ming revolt will expel the Mongols. For Roger Bacon, read James Blish's Doctor Mirabilis. I admit to not knowing much about most of the items on this list. However, we now have the technology that Manse Everard encountered in the Time Patrol Academy in the Oligocene and thought could be expected by about 2000 A.D.:

"...screens which could draw on a huge library of recorded sight and sound for entertainment."
-Poul Anderson, "Time Patrol" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 1-53 AT 2, p. 8.

- for entertainment and information.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Now I'm wondering, what were some of the sources/reference works Anderson used for writing "Time Patrol" in 1953-54? I think the ENCYLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA was almost certainly one of them.

Ad astra! Sean