Can all this be in a single novel? We seem to be discussing different books. And, in fact, Boat could have been broken up and published as a trilogy: The Past; The Twentieth Century; The Future - although not The Past Through Tomorrow...
See previous post. Surely knowing that they are models would prevent the constructs from being accurate models?
Hanno convenes a council of ancient explorers:
Fridtjof Nansen;
Ernest Shackleton (see image);
Marc Aurel Stein;
Peter Freuchen;
Henry Stanley;
William Barents.
Why not Pytheas? (He warned Svoboda not to call up people she had known...)
Shackleton: "'Endure...'"
Nansen: "'Think of the others...'"
Stein: "'Share your vision...'"
Freuchen: "'...why are they sniveling?'"
Stanley: "'You'll only find strength in yourself, sir...'"
Barents: "'Commend you soul to God, Hanno.'" (pp. 542-543)
Anderson imagines what the explorers reconstructed by the Pytheas AI would say. How many levels of reality are here?
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