Can we call someone who lives in a particular timeline a "timeliner"? Technic History timeliners hear the stories that we read.
Coya Conyon:
"'...when I was a youngster...I'd hear about the latest adventure of the fabulous Muddlin' Through team...'"
-Poul Anderson, Mirkheim IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2011), pp. 1-291 AT I, p. 33.
Diana Crowfeather:
"'...even we, on our remote and lately embattled frontier, have heard the fame of Wodenites, from the days of Adzel the Wayfarer to this very hour.'"
-Poul Anderson, The Game Of Empire IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 189-453 AT CHAPTER ONE, p. 201.
Fr. Francis Xavier Axor:
"'I have, yes, I have encountered tales of Admiral Flandry's exploits...'"
-ibid., p. 213.
In The Game Of Empire:
"Westward Diana could see no horizon..." (p. 195)
"'I'm Diana Crowfeather.'" (p. 203)
"'Oh, my father's Dominic Flandry.'" (p. 212)
That third statement makes a difference, seventeen pages into the text.
The future historical background references that I did not list in Olga's Landing Old Quarter are:
Foredwellers/Ancients/Elders/Others/Old Shen/Builders
Chereionites
Aeneas
Dominic Flandry
Starkad
the Breakup
the Commonwealth
Poul Anderson explains why certain characters were introduced in the Technic History:
"...the exploratory team [van Rijn] organized - David Falkayn, Chee Lan, Adzel and Muddlehead, their ship's insufferable computer. They showed up because it wasn't logical that the old man should have all the adventures."
-Poul Anderson, AFTERWORD IN Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 681-682 AT p. 681.
"At last the time came for a new generation to take over the saga..."
-INTRODUCTION IN Flandry's Legacy, pp. 191-192 AT p. 191.
That new generation are Flandry's daughter and Dragoika's son and it is unfortunate that Anderson was able to write only one novel about them.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteAnd that new generation also included Emperor Gerhart's son Crown Prince Karl. I too regret how Anderson did not write one or two more stories featuring that younger generation.
Ad astra!