-Poul Anderson, A Stone In Heaven IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 1-188 AT III, p. 29.
"- she and Dominic were not yet too old for a child or two. Not quite, he approaching seventy and she approaching fifty, given antisenescence plus the kind of DNA repair they could pay for."
-The Game Of Empire, CHAPTER TWELVE, p. 318.
"...approaching seventy..." means sixty-nine. It follows that these two novels are eight years apart. Sandra Miesel puts them as three years apart whereas Sean M. Brooks makes it five years. See Sean's article on Miesel's Chronology, here.
This point has probably already been made before on the blog but I found it easier just to make it again!
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Actually, I think Miriam Abrams was 17 younger than Flandry when they met in A STONE IN HEAVEN. She was mentioned as a growing infant in ENSIGN FLANDRY, which I understood to mean two Terran years old (Flandry was 19 in that story).
So I can imagine Lady Flandry being still a bit short of fifty in that text you quoted from THE GAME OF EMPIRE. Because I still believe Flandry to be aged 67 in that book. Age sixty seven is still "approaching" seventy.
But I will have to check the link you made, when citing me! (Smiles)
Ad astra! Sean
Kaor, Paul!
I checked my article on Miesel's chronology of Technic civilization, and I now wonder if I erred in my proposed dating for THE GAME OF EMPIRE, perhaps it should be set SIX, not five years after A STONE IN HEAVEN. A small detail, but one I should think about.
Ad astra! Sean
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