(i) Saunders and Hull easily jump from 1973 to 2073.
(ii) They laboriously struggle back decade by decade by half decade to 2008 but no further, while remaining within the pit that had been their underground workshop.
(iii) Saunders, accompanied at first by Hull but mostly by Belgotai, traverses an entire period of interplanetary conflict, then the entire rise and fall of the First Galactic Empire, then, by applying his imported time travel technology to space combat, helps to initiate the Second Empire.
(iv) Saunders alone travels around the circle of time, and between the end and beginning of the universe, back to 1973.
Saunders' "Flight Without End," after 50,000 AD, corresponds to the Time Traveler's "Further Vision," after 802,701 AD. Cosmic time as a circle is common to this mini-future history and to Olaf Stapledon's novel-length future history, Last And First Men.
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