See also Forest And Ruins.
In World Without Stars, Hugh Valland is among the first to use the antithanatic. In FLAG, Torben Hebo is among the first to rejuvenated. After nine hundred years of life, Hebo, revisiting Earth, thinks that he can discern the foundation of the church in which he was married. The names on the few remaining gravestones have weathered away. We know that this happens to buildings but do not expect to live to see it. Cities have ceased to exist on Earth between Hebo's visits. The climate-control satellites that he had helped to construct are no longer either needed or still in orbit.
All this makes it sound as if Hebo was born much closer to our present than I had thought. Maybe the novel is set just one millennium into the future.
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Kaor, Paul!
And Hebo noticed hints or intimations of something very odd going on Earth and the Solar System. But we never find out for sure what Earth was up to in FLAG (good or bad). That would have needed a second volume set in the FLAG timeline.
Sean
There are also indications that Hebo thinks that things he -can't- understand are going on.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
But, if my memory is correct, Hebo got any truly satisfactory explanations for the oddities he noticed to assuage any uneasiness he had.
Sean
I meant: "Hebo NEVER got any truly satisfactory explanations for the oddities he noticed to assuage any uneasiness he had."
Sean
Sean,
We usually dig the meaning when a word is missing.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
True, and I'm glad of that! But the mistakes I too often make due to hasty typing still vexes me!
Sean
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