A massive alien stone monument traps the time projector in the time stream for twenty thousand years. In 25,296 AD, a house-sized block slips out half way up the monument and the projector is released. With an artificial outer casing either removed or worn away, soil, grass, trees, roots, wind, rain and frost are eroding the stone.
In 26,000, the monument has become a wooded hill.
In 27,000, there is:
"...a small village of wood and stone houses..." (p. 245)
In 28,000, men quarry the hill for stone.
In 30,000, the monument has gone and a small city has been built from it.
In 31,000, there is a city with tall towers, swarming aircraft and a spaceship.
Saunders and Belgotai see all this and stop briefly in 31,000 when they learn that there is a Solar Matriarchy. In passages like this, history is the hero.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
That massive monument reminded me of the time worn Great Pyramids of Egypt.
Ad astra! Sean
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