the political relationship between Earth and Moon changes between Volumes I and II;
Vol II, The Stars Are Also Fire, Chapter 1, informs us that, centuries earlier, there was an important historical figure called Dagny Beynac;
in Chapter 2, a flashback, an important figure already known to us, Anson Guthrie, tells Dagny Ebbeson that he is her grandfather;
Chapter 3 is set in Tychopolis on Luna;
in Chapter 4, another flashback, Dagny Ebbeson meets Edmond Beynac on the Moon while mining metals for the building of Tychopolis.
Since the two (so far) flashbacks are entitled "The Mother of the Moon," we deduce that Dagny Ebbeson/Beynac will come to be regarded as a Foundress of the Lunar colony.
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Kaor, Paul!
Yes, Anderson's HARVEST OF STARS books was his last major "future history" series. I regret to say that the strange and wondrous concepts we see in those books caused me to stop corresponding with Anderson. NOT in the least because I wanted, but because I needed time to wrap my mind around those concepts. Alas, by the time I felt ready to write another letter, Anderson had died.
The articles I have written which you so kindly "published" on this blog, are in some ways, meant to be "posthumous" letters to Anderson.
Sean
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