"...the horrors that will come..."
-"Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks," p. 247 -
- and, in the following story, "The Sorrow of Odin the Goth," Carl Farness refers to New York becoming uninhabitable but does not say either when or how.
These are two different kinds of time travel narratives: the first, a single novel, outlines a future history, whereas the second, a series, keeps its "present" identical with that of its author and readers and therefore avoids mentioning any near future dates or events. Farness visits a hospital on the Moon in 2319 but that is a long way off.
Poul Anderson covers every possibility.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
New York City does not need a nuclear bomb to become uninhabitable! Bad idea, and disastrous policies implemented by politicians too incompetent to accept hard facts, is or will be enough to do THAT.
And Anderson was careful enough not to commit himself to anything by showing us anything about the Earth and Moon of AD 2319. Except that we are to infer the Moon was colonized during the next three centuries.
Ad astra! Sean
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