Wednesday 1 April 2020

Future "Years"

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:

Sean M. Brooks said...

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