Laurinda's Transitional Period

Information about Christian Brannock's period of the Genesis future history is summarized here. Some information about Laurinda Ashcroft's period, two hundred years later, is here. And there is some more on the latter:

Laurinda was born in England, a quiet, thinly populated European province, devoted to memorials of the past;

the arts, overshadowed by AI esthetics, addressed either classical or stellar themes;

meaningful work for human beings was a privilege sought by the gifted and energetic;

Laurinda participated in the arts and traveled in her work, liaising between human beings and AI's;

when a new earthquake control system would change a landscape and disrupt a community, she needed to know whether it could be resited or alternatively whether cultural adjustments could be made (I misread "...resited..." (p. 154) as "resisted" until I reread the passage to summarize it);

but, usually, her role was to counsel the lost and bewildered;

she was childless because of population control.

Her period was transitional. Christian Brannock was two hundred years earlier and Mikel Belov was seventeen hundred years later.