Future History Building

Eric Wace's wide horizons on Diomedes generated a two-post digression on Poul Anderson and CS Lewis. The next task is to return to rereading The Man Who Counts but there will probably not be much progress tonight.

We appreciate the process of future history building:

the planet Hermes was mentioned in "Wings of Victory";

the Polesotechnic League was introduced in "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson";

Nicholas van Rijn of the League was introduced in "Margin of Profit";

David Falkayn from Hermes was introduced on the planet Ivanhoe in "The Three-Cornered Wheel";

Falkayn worked for van Rijn's company in "A Sun Invisible";

other League merchants work on another Ivanhoan continent in "The Season of Forgiveness";

van Rijn is with Sandra Tamarin from Hermes in The Man Who Counts -

- and a great deal more than this will happen but that is the stage of the History that we are at right now and probably where we, or at least I, will stay until some time tomorrow.

Tomorrow: an outing with my daughter and granddaughter during the day and meditation group in the evening. Blogging is part of life but finds its place between the other parts.