The Future Begins

Poul Anderson wrote so many "future histories" - several series and one single novel - which in turn can be favorably compared with so many similarly themed series or single works by other authors that a reader's attention can be diverted from Anderson's vast canon of works as such to the literary genre of future histories in general. See, on the Science Fiction blog:

Future Histories
Future Histories II
Four More Future Histories

Returning to Volume I of Anderson's four volume Harvest Of Stars future history, we find that Chapter 10 Database is a flashback to Anson Guthrie's bodily life before his personality was downloaded into an artificial neural network.

Since Guthrie was born in 1970, he would have been forty eight in 2018 so I will reread this chapter with interest while looking out for any clues as to Guthrie's age. Although most of this series is set centuries in our future, the life of its leading character overlaps with ours. Yet again, the future begins now. (Wells' Time Traveler tells his dinner guests how he traveled into that strange territory, "tomorrow.")