Opening and concluding installments:
"Time Patrol" and "Death and the Knight."
"Time Patrol" begins in 1954 with Manson Everard as a thirty year old engineer, unemployed in New York. "Death and the Knight" ends in 1307 with Everard in Paris, about to return to San Francisco in 1990. However, he is older than sixty six because of time travel but has not aged visibly because of Patrol medical treatment.
The History Of Technic Civilization (seven omnibus volumes containing forty three works of different lengths)
Opening and concluding installments:
"The Saturn Game" and "Starfog."
"The Saturn Game" is set in the Saturnian system, mostly on Iapetus, in the twenty first century whereas "Starfog" is set in another spiral arm of the galaxy millennia later. A very great deal has happened to the human race and to many other intelligent species since "The Saturn Game."
The Two Series
In the Technic History, millennia of history have elapsed. Technic civilization has risen and fallen to be succeeded by several other civilizations. In the Time Patrol series, decades have elapsed in the twentieth century and Patrol agents have traveled throughout human history as well as prehistory. These are two contrasting fictional perspectives on history.
Somewhere in the Time Patrol series, it is stated that Earth will always be the human world - even though there is interstellar travel - whereas, in the Technic History, humanity colonizes many worlds and leaves Earth far behind in space and time.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
We do see occasional mention of Old Earth in the four post-Imperial Technic timeline stories. But most people would be too busy trying first to survive the chaos of the Long Night and then too busy with their own affairs in successor civilizations to give much thought to actually going back to Terra to find out had happened there since the Empire fell.
Sean
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