See A Century Hence.
Team A:
found that Earth in the twenty first century was sterile although the radioactivity had died down sufficiently that they themselves were not in danger;
estimated that the nuclear exchange had occurred about one year after the twentieth-century base date.
Team B found that:
in AD 100,000,000, plants are re-evolving;
however, they have not yet released enough oxygen to make the atmosphere breathable.
The Jurassic base is supplied with agricultural, industrial and scientific equipment, canned food, microfilmed culture and extra personnel, obviously both male and female. How long did they survive in the past and did they make it into space? There is no sequel.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
But it's possible "Epilogue" was set in the same world line as "Wildcat."
Ad astra! Sean
It occurs to me that if they can go into the future, they could reintroduce primitive plants into the sterile but not impossibly radioactive world, then skip ahead and spread more advanced plants, fish, birds, animals, insects, etc., then skip ahead until the terrestrial ecosystem has reestablished itself and settle -that- world.
It would be more habitable than the Jurassic.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I wish I had thought of that! And not only more habitable than the Jurassic, but also quicker and easier to settle than for the survivors to search out a planet orbiting another star to settle.
I wonder what Poul Anderson might have done with your idea if something very like it had occurred to him?
Ad astra! Sean
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