(ii) Flandry protects an Empire whereas Everard protects a history.
(iii) Apartments in Archopolis and New York.
(iv) A hectic city and a hectic sky. See here.
(v) Pivotal events. See here.
(vi) An Elder Race: Danellians; Chereionites.
(vii) Wellsian vision. See here.
(viii) Decadent historical periods.
(ix) Evolutionary changes in humanity.
(x) Action-adventure fiction incorporated into serious historical reflections and literary writing.
Compiling this list, I began with two parallels and wound up with ten.
7 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Commenting on your point (vi): isn't it more accurate to think of the Danellians, who arose a million years to Manse's future as a YOUNGER race? The Danellians might think of US as belonging to an elder race.
Sean
Sean,
Yes. Time travel is paradoxical, though. When Everard is recruited in 1954, time travel is new to him but old to the Danellian that he meets.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
That is true! I forget the date chosen by Anderson for when time traveling was invented in the Time Patrol "world," but it occurred long, long, long before the Danellians arose.
Needless to say, I'm skeptical of whether time traveling is actually possible! I think a FTL drive is more likely. And more desirable!
Sean
Sean: physics types tell me that time travel and FTL are mathematically identical -- if one is possible, the other would be too.
Dear Mr. Stirling,
I should have remembered that you used that idea near the end of the third of your Nantucket books. The very idea of both FTL and time traveling being possible is mind boggling. Which helps to explain why so many physicists deny/disbelieve in FTL.
Sean
We're just getting hints of "action at a distance" not governed by relativistic limits.
Dear Mr. Stirling,
And I so FIERCELY hope this might lead to the invention of a FTL drive in the near future!
Sean
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