Monday, 28 December 2020

Falkayn's Age V

Rereading "Lodestar" and Mirkheim, I wondered whether to re-address the question of Falkayn's age but decided to leave it. For what it is worth, the relevant texts are, in this order:

"The Three-Cornered Wheel"
"A Sun Invisible"
"The Trouble Twisters"
"Day of Burning"
Satan's World
"Lodestar," first narrative section
Mirkheim, Prologue, Y minus 18.
"Lodestar," second narrative section
Mirkheim, Prologue, Y minus 9.
Mirkheim, I-XXI
"Wingless," where David is a grandfather

Complicated, you must admit.
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1 comment:

  1. Sean M. Brooks28 December 2020 at 22:22

    Kaor, Paul!

    We know, from MIRKHEIM, that Falkayn was fifty years old by the time of that story. And Old Nick was eighty. In my revision of Sandra Miesel's Chronology of Technic Civilization, I put Old Nick's birth year as AD 2421 and Falkayn's birth date as 2451. Which I believe to be more accurate than Miesel's dates.

    Happy New Year! Sean

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