See Reality.
Keith Denison has been Cyrus the Great for sixteen years:
"'You know, sometimes everything that went before seems unreal to me, like a dream. Were there ever such things as Christendom, contrapuntal music, or the Bill of Rights? Not to mention all the people I knew. You yourself don't belong here, Manse, I keep expecting to wake up....'" (p. 82)
Denison uncannily echoes Wells' Time Traveler. See Understanding New Worlds.
Perhaps Wells and Anderson are the sf equivalents of Homer and Virgil.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
After posing as Cyrus for sixteen years, I can see why Keith Denison would be increasingly tempted to think the world he came from was UNREAL.
Ad astra! Sean
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