We do not think of the Leonora Christine as a time machine although it bears some similarity to the Time Machine. We do not think of it as a generation ship although one baby is born in it. Reymont turns babies into a motivating factor.
We do not think of Tau Zero as a future history although its protagonists endure into the next universe. Combined with its prequel, "Pride," the novel approaches future historical status. Sub-genre categories break down. Tau Zero is a companion volume or parallel text to Starfarers which is one of the two versions of the Kith future history.
The denizens of the diverse fictional futures know nothing of each other although Poul Anderson's readers can contemplate his multiverse and he even provides the opportunity for some of the inhabitants of different timelines to meet in the Old Phoenix.
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Kaor, Paul!
We also see mention of a science fiction convention in SATAN'S WORLD, so it's reasonable to think people in the Technic timeline were aware of this kind of speculation. And ENSIGN FLANDRY has Persis d'Io mentioning she read two adventure novels titled OUTLAW BLASTMAN and PLANET OF SIN. So we see SF contributing some of the tropes of everyday swash buckling fiction.
Sean
I wonder if either of those were unpublished early works by PA?
Meanwhile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luZUyggfZOQ
Planet Of Sin, a song by hypermarket.
"Feh...."
-kh
Kaor, Keith!
I thought of those books read by Persis as being meant by PA to give some "local color" to ENSIGN FLANDRY. And perhaps meant as being a bit sardonic as well.
Sean
Thank you, Sean.
-kh
We have a bit of an anachronism here (like the "Cities in Flight" slide rule in 4000 CE) with Persis and her *two pulps (which sound like physical books). Already here in the primitive, low-tech 21st Cen, I have a number of e-books on my palm-sized external hard drive- no Asimovian book-film reader for me, no sir!
For more of this go to: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/telecommunication.php about halfway down "Future Reading"
Cheers,
Keith
*Wonder if Persis would've liked "Sky-Sorceress of Scotha" Or "Hell-hounds of Hermes"?
Kaor, Keith!
But over and over in the Technic stories we see mention of how some people still PREFER to read books in old fashioned codex form. I think both Nicholas van Rijn and Chunderban Desai are mentioned as having printed and bound books. My view is that some people, even centuries from now, will prefer to have their most favorite books in printed form.
And we see Flandry mentioning near the end of THE GAME OF EMPIRE that no adventure story writer would have dared tried convincing his readers that a power like Merseia would have done something so audacious as attempting to place a puppet on the Imperial throne.
Sean
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