However:
"Time Patrol" was published in 1955 and Casino Royale in 1953 so we can think of Everard and Bond as contemporaries;
both series describe New York;
both refer to Croesus - he is mentioned in a Bank of England briefing when Bond prepares to tackle Auric Goldfinger and Everard meets him.
These are the details that make parallels between works of fiction in readers' minds. Now I need to get back to that war between the Maurai Federation and the Northwest Union over the infamous Orion project.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I never thought of this before, but we never see New York City, or whatever it became in the Technic series. Did it morph into the kind of "integrates" we see Chicago and San Francisco becoming? I've thought of Technic integrates being political/administrative units as vastly expanded cities which absorbed large or vast territories into them. So did New York "take over" the entire states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut? We do know the San Francisco Integrate has a governor, not a mere mayor.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
The smart money is on New York Integrate.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I agree, and the UK might have, in both Commonwealth and Imperial times, become the London Integrate. We know Flandry was a friend of the Mayor Palatine of Britain. Politically, was the British Integrate presided over by a descendant of the royal family and governed by some kind of parliament even then (we see mention of inner Empire congresses)?
Ad astra! Sean
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