There are Polesotechnic League stories without Nicholas van Rijn and Terran Empire stories without Dominic Flandry but no Time Patrol stories without Manse Everard although there could have been. The dialogue of "Gibraltar Falls" begins with Everard declining an invitation to join Tom Nomura and Feliz a Rach so the story is going to be about them, from Nomura's pov. Nomura and Feliz are at work whereas, as far as I can gather, Everard is on vacation.
Would it not take more than a hundred years for the water of the Atlantic to flow into the Mediterranean?
"...now had begun a hundred years of thunder. When that was done, nothing would ever be the same again." (p. 114)
The Pliocene will have succeeded the Miocene: a change for the world but, for the Patrol, just another place and time that they can visit and revisit.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
You are right, once I thought of it, ALL of the Time Patrol stories Anderson wrote has Manse Everard as one of the characters. Albeit, as in "Gibraltar Falls" and "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," a fairly minor character.
Ad astra! Sean
"Would it not take more than a hundred years for the water of the Atlantic to flow into the Mediterranean?"
That would have been my guess too, but according to the Wikipedia article it was considerably less.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanclean_flood
I've thought about what a species with roughly 20th century tech could have done with something like a dried out Mediterranean. A series of parallel pipes taking water down to hydroelectric turbines would make the Gibraltar area the most important industrial region of the world.
On a much smaller scale the Qattara depression west of the Nile delta has been proposed for something of the sort.
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