Anderson fans, please note. Today, I collected Jules Verne's Around The Moon, To The Sun? (never heard of it) and Off On A Comet from the public library. (See "Moon, Sun, Comet" on the Science Fiction blog, today.) So I will need some time for reading as against posting.
Meanwhile, how much more do we know about Stane? Not a great deal. A literary successor of Mark Twain's Hank Morgan and L Sprague de Camp's Martin Padway, he confides in Everard:
"'It hasn't been easy. You would be surprised how hard it is to survive in a different age until you know your way around, even if you have modern weapons and interesting gifts for the king." (p. 40)
He has had to learn Latin in the fifth century but now speaks it fluently and prefers it to Jutish when conversing with a fellow time traveler.
But, unlike Morgan and Padway, he is from our future, 2987. His psychographic history sounds like psychohistory, psychotehnics etc. Will such a science of society be developed?
Physically, he is small and lithe with a large head, ugly, gnomish face and black hair. His face is transfigured when he thinks that he has given peace to the world - before the Time Patrolmen kill him.
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