ca. 2055 "The Saturn Game" (ASF, 1981)
2150 "Wings of Victory" (ASF, 1972)
(ASF = Analog Science Fiction.)
It follows from the publication dates, that, for nine years, "Wings of Victory" was the opening installment of this future history and it appears as such in earlier versions of the Chronology.
2150 can only be an arbitrary round number, signifying that FTL interstellar exploration is happening but not in our immediate future. The middle of the twenty second century reads like a good guess, if nothing else.
By, at such a late date, adding "The Saturn Game" to the series, Anderson filled in a small amount of detail between "the present" and the Grand Survey. 2055 is considerably closer to Anderson and his readers than 2150. I will be 103 if I am still alive then, which is barely feasible. My daughter and granddaughter should still be alive. Whatever is going to happen, our present is always interacting with our future.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And it is just barely possible that I too might somehow totter along to AD 2055!
Sean
...without asking precisely what age you will be by then!
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
If I stagger along that long, I will become 101 in 2055! Which I'm skeptical of actually reaching. (Smiles)
Sean
Writing near-future SF in the same timeline is always dangerous! Not least because the future arrives more quickly than you anticipated.
Dear Mr. Stirling,
True, but one way around that is to write near future SF in alternate worlds--as you did with your two Lords of Creation books or THE PESHAWAR LANCERS, etc. These are among my favorites from your works.
Sean
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