Saturday, 14 October 2017

Two More Ultimate States

The previous post summarized:

Poul Anderson's first sf novel;
four future histories;
his time travel series.

Then I thought: which other future histories or time travel works lead to ultimate states for humanity?

There Will Be Time points to an interstellar civilization united by time travel along the world-lines of STL spaceships. Compare Blish's world-line cruiser here.

The Corridors Of Time has the peaceful interstellar civilization of the "time wardens" after the period of the time-warring Wardens and Rangers.

These are two time travel novels and There Will Be Time also incorporates the Maurai future history.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

One interesting point made by the successors of the Wardens and the Rangers is how they tried to combine what was best from both warring cultures. For instance, that successor civilization still had CITIES, but not on the monstrous scale used by Bran's people.

Sean