Tinerans On The Dreary

The Day Of Their Return, 8.

The Waybreak tinerans' chosen life-style obliges them to trek, most of them on foot, across a lifeless plateau where water must be rationed until food cannot be cooked and utensils must be cleaned with sand. Also, nights are so cold that the animals must be enclosed in tents to keep them alive. Surely some of the technology of Technic civilization could be used to make this crossing less arduous? We will learn that tineran psychology is peculiar, of course.

For a discussion of whether antigravity technology should make the Aenean Riverfolk's lifestyle redundant see the combox for On The River.

Aenean society is so rich and complex that we welcome any proposed rationalizations of this society as Poul Anderson describes it. Similarly interesting societies in the Technic History are to be found on the planets, Hermes, Avalon and Dennitza.