Sunday, 4 October 2020

Three Temporal Cylinders

The Rover is "...a tapered hundred-foot cylinder. Inside, I knew it was mostly empty space, with a few simple dials and studs." ("The Nest," p. 108)

The time projector is "...a burnished steel cylinder, studded with instruments and controls, on which a pair of technicians labored. A window showed a bare interior." ("The Little Monster," p. 146)

(Time travelers are projected from within it. They do not travel in it.)

The time projector is "...a metal cylinder some ten feet high and thirty feet long with the unfinished look of all experimental setups. The outer shell was simply protection for the battery banks and the massive dimensional projector within. A tiny space in the forward end was left fot the two men." ("Flight to Forever," pp. 208-209)

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

But "Flight to Forever" belongs to Anderson's early phase as a writer, when he was, in many ways, still learning how to write. So I have to regard "Flight" as not being quite as sophisticated or smoothly written as his later time traveling stories.

Ad astra! Sean