stories overlap, 2420s
"A Sun Invisible"
"The Season of Forgiveness"
The Man Who Counts
"Esau"
"Hiding Place"
stories overlap, 2430s
"Territory"
"The Trouble Twisters"
"Day of Burning"
"The Master Key"
Satan's World
"A Little Knowledge"
Not only successive times but also contemporaneous events in different parts of space. Before the complete collection of the Technic History as The Technic Civilization Saga, we read:
"A Sun Invisible" and "The Trouble Twisters" in The Trouble Twisters;
"The Season of Forgiveness," The Man Who Counts, "Esau," "Day of Burning" and "A Little Knowledge" in The Earth Book Of Stormgate;
"Hiding Place," "Territory" and "The Master Key" as Trader To The Stars;
Satan's World as a single volume.
How can the series be presented not linearly but concurrently so that the audience is made aware of and directly experiences the overlapping of the stories? Serialized screen dramatizations of the van Rijn stories and of the Falkayn stories could be broadcast on different days of the week. Thus, on Monday evening, we would see part of "A Sun Invisible" and, on Tuesday evening, part of The Man Who Counts.
Later:
"Territory" concurrently with "The Trouble Twisters";
"Day of Burning" concurrently with "The Master Key";
Satan's World concurrently with "A Little Knowledge."
Thus:
van Rijn is on t'Kela while Falkayn is on Ikrananka;
Falkayn is on Merseia while van Rijn is in the Winged Cross;
van Rijn and Falkayn tackle different aspects of the Shenn problem while less worthy characters are up to no good on Trillia.
5 comments:
Given the backdrop of Technic society, I would expect more conquistador types -- there's not much interstellar law enforcement except against things like pirates preying on Technic-associated shipping, so if you just went a long way beyond the usual shipping lanes, you should be able to get away with anything long enough to be too well established to dig out.
Mr Stirling,
Like in STAR WAYS when human beings enslave an entire planet beyond the writ of the Stellar Union and the Coordination Service. They have gained a world but are losing their souls.
Paul.
Dear Mr. Stirling,
We do get occasional hints of that in the Technic stories. Such as the mentions of barbarians obtaining space ships and nuclear weapons too soon in their history, before their cultures had advanced enough to use such things with reasonable care. The would be conquistadors seen in "A Little Knowledge" had been planning to shanghai a space ship from the Trillians to use as a model while teaching such things to a barbarian state. Unfortunately, as Anderson made plain, not all were thwarted.
Sean
Though with regard to the STAR WAYS story, it's impossible for the human conquerors to be assimilated by their subjects the way, say, the Franks were in France or the Visigoths in Spain, because they're biologically different, not just culturally.
Dear Mr. Stirling,
I certainly agree! But I do recalled from STAR WAYS/THE PEREGRINE how one character commented these human conquerors were becoming culturally conquered or assimilated by their non-human subjects.
Sean
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