I need to read for the first time the two ISAAC'S UNIVERSE volumes, The Diplomacy Guild (1990) and Phases In Chaos (1991), which contain contributions by Anderson, especially since, when he incorporated these two stories into the independent novel, FLAG, Anderson altered:
the history;
the several intelligent species;
the characters;
most place names;
the course of events.
So what did he not change? The premise that FTL space travelers find relics of unknown predecessors as in Anderson's Technic History although, in that series, the Ancients are the focus of one novel but not of the entire history.
Anderson would possibly have written more FLAG volumes. I would have liked to have read maybe one more although I would have been much more interested in a lot more of the Technic History.
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Kaor, Paul!
And one thing I remember about FOR LOVE AND GLORY is that medical science had advanced far enough that life could be extended nearly indefinitely if humans underwent the necessary treatment at the required intervals. Which I thought more plausible than the single, permanently effective, one time treatment seen in WORLD WITHOUT STARS.
I can see human lifetimes possibly being extended, but INDEFINITELY so is harder to believe in!
Sean
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