In Heinlein's Future History Time Chart:
The "Crazy Years"
Strike of '66
The "False Dawn" 1960-70
First rocket to the Moon, 1978
In James Blish's Chronology of Cities In Flight:
2522 Beginning of the Empty Years.
In one of Sandra Miesel's interstitial passages in Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History:
"The Years of Hunger gave way to the Years of Madness -"
A future historian can suggest an entire period just by coining a phrase including the word "Years..."
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And of course Anderson's Technic timeline has the Chaos, the Time of Troubles, and the Long Night, for analogous periods.
Ad astra! Sean
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