Unable to return from 2008 to 1973, Saunders and Hull decide to try the further future where they might be able to obtain a more powerful engine like a small atomic generator. They hope for both higher technology and helpfulness in that further future. These are reasonable hopes but still only hopes. The jump to AD 2500 requires very little energy, implying that they would be able, if necessary:
"...to travel to the end of the world." (CHAPTER TWO, p. 218)
Saunders thinks:
"Eve, Eve, I'll come back. I'll come back if I have to go ahead to Judgment Day...." (ibid.)
Although we do not know it yet, that is precisely what he will do.
The author is free to write absolutely anything about the world in AD 2500. However, any blog reader who has not read, or does not remember the details of, "Flight to Forever" will have to wait in suspense until my next post which might be a while.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I don't know if it's strictly logical to hope by traveling a trillion years into the future then you would arrive back at the same time you started out from, a trillion years in the past.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
It is not but the "gods" told Saunders to do it.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I know,but it still seems rather weak. But"Flight" was a very early story by Anderson, written before he had thought thru more of the implications of time traveling.
Ad astra! Sean
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