By the late thirtieth century, the Saturnian moons had been colonized. Rozher Schtein, having lived there once, was able to penetrate the disguise of a time traveler claiming to be a merchant from the Saturnian System.
Two centuries later, genetic technology in the Saturnian System produces hairless, white (not pink) human beings. One joins the Time Patrol and plays "...a Chopin scherzo..." (ST, p. 296) on the piano in the common room of the Pleistocene Pyrenees lodge in 18,244 BC. (A scherzo is often a movement from a symphony or sonata.)
The pianist tells Everard that, if he wants his heart eased, she has "'...the Gift of Quietness.'"(ibid.) He considers the offer generous but we are not told what it means.
I remembered that an office wall in an Anderson work was an animation screen showing a gas giant as seen from an approaching spaceship but the gas giant is Jupiter, not Saturn, and that work is in the Dominic Flandry series, not in the Time Patrol series. When Time Patrolman Carl Farness visits the Moon in 2319, a window or screen shows mountains, craters and Earth but not, as I had thought, Saturn.
Thus, these few paragraphs exhaust what we are told about Saturn in the Time Patrol timeline.
1 comment:
Hi, Paul!
Actually, the FIRST time Flandry was in Admiral Kheraskov's office, the wall animation he saw was of Jupiter. The second time the animation shown was of Saturn.
And Aaron Snelund, the chief villain of THE REBEL WORLDS, chose as his preferred office animation one showing an Imperial court masked ball.
Sean
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