Tuesday 27 August 2019

Piet Van Sarawak

"Piet Van Sarawak (Dutch-Indonesian-Venusian, early twenty-fourth A.D.)..."
-Poul Anderson, "Delenda Est " IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 173-228 AT 1, p. 174.

The blog search for "Piet van Rijn" found "Piet van Rinnoken" but not "Piet Van Sarawak" probably because the latter's surname begins "Van S...," not "van Ri..."

Nicholas van Rijn and Piet Van Sarawak live in alternative timelines. Does either of them inhabit the future of Trygve Yamamura and Piet van Rijn? Both might. Alternative futures that diverge, e.g., in the early twenty first century, assume a common past until the end of the twentieth century. Einstein is common to diverse fictional futures so Yamamura might be also.

Time to visit Ketlan who is back out of hospital.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Let me again offer my good wishes to Ketlan and the hope that he enjoys as much good health as possible for a long time!

Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Speedy recovery to Ketlan.

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Thank you both.