Monday, 29 September 2025

History Continues

"Flight to Forever."

I will visit Andrea above the Old Pier Bookshop tomorrow so might not blog then but should receive some inspiration.

History continues from that recorded in the previous post.

In 34,000, the city of the Matriarchy is burned ruins and fresh skeletons.

In 35,000, a peasant hut under old trees.

In 36,000, a village and an outpost of the waning Galactic Empire. 

In 50,000, Saunders wins a space battle with time travel and thus revives the Empire.

In 60,000, Saunders, sent futureward against his will, finds that the time projector is under the sea.

Four million years later, he is an incomprehensible city which tells him to go beyond the end of the universe...

I could continue but maybe I should just advise everyone to read or reread the conclusion.

(The following evening: I had to check to be certain but that is definitely Anonymous, not Andrea, standing in front of the shop.)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Paul!

Getting more interested in rereading "Flight to Forever," despite thinking it's not one of Anderson's more satisfactory early stories.

Ad astra! Sean