Age In Fiction

Should fictional series characters age as if in real time? My basic answer is "yes" but there is scope for clever tricks such as Ian Fleming plays with James Bond. (See here.)

Poul Anderson's three Trygve Yammura novels are close together in time.

Anderson created three sets of unaging characters who, of course, are in a different category.

Anderson's Technic History characters have access to antisenescence but nevertheless age. Indeed, change - social, historical, personal - is the theme of the series.

Asimov decided that his Black Widowers would remain in a literary eternity, unchanging and unaging. Sixty six stories equals sixty six monthly meetings, thus five and a half years. That is ok but I would have objected if it had become five and a half decades!