In 25,296 A.D., the time travelers, on Earth, meet archaeologists:
"'...from the Galactic Institute, Sarlan-sector branch.'"
-Chapter Three, p. 241.
There is a Galactic Empire;
civilization is concentrated near the Galactic center;
Sol is within the Empire but remote;
there are barbarians on the Galactic periphery and in the Magellanic Clouds.
In 31,000 A.D., there is an Imperial legate at Sirius. (p. 246)
In 50,000 A.D., the Empire is almost dead:
"Only a few starveling savages lived on [Earth] now, and indeed the whole Sirius Sector was so desolated that no conqueror thought it worth bothering with."
-Chapter Four, p. 257.
Yes. The Sirius Sector is common to more than one future history.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Darn! I had completely forgotten how this early work by Poul Anderson used "Sirius Sector" in the story. "Flight to Forever" was first pub. in 1950, making it one of Anderson's earliest stories. And the story shows it, that the author was then writing in ways he later discarded. It's very much an early phase story by Anderson, as he was learning how to write, to find his natural or best way of writing.
Sean
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