Sunday 15 March 2020

Families In Future Histories

"Joyce Davisson awoke as if she had been stabbed."
-"Territory," p. 3.

"A willowy blonde with the old-fashioned Esperancian taste for simplicity in clothes, Eve Davisson made a pleasing contrast to Philippe Rochefort, as both were well aware."
-Poul Anderson, The People Of The Wind IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2011), pp. 437-662 AT IV, 487.

Families live in future histories:

Stones on the Moon in three works by Robert Heinlein;

in Poul Anderson's Technic History -

Runebergs on Hermes;
Falkayns and Holms on Avalon;
Kittredges on Vixen;
Davissons on Esperance.

Tabitha Falkayn is brought up by Ythrians and marries Christopher Holm so does the Founder's surname end with her? Probably not. Others would have inherited it.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And I have wondered if Joyce Davisson became the mother of a daughter by Old Nick, and that daughter in turn was Coya Conyon's mother. Mention was made in "Lodestar" or MIRKHEIM of van Rijn's mistresses remembering him fondly. Was one of them named Joyce?

Ad astra! Sean