Saturday 5 June 2021

Early Man

"The Chapter Ends."

"...there had been an elemental magnificence about early man and the works he raised to challenge the sky." (p.210)

The earliest human beings did not raise anything. However, these "early" men built "...Sol City, capital of the legendary First Empire..." (p. 209) which fell fifty thousand years before the events of "The Chapter Ends" so they count as "early" to the viewpoint character, Jorun. And they are later than the "early history" to which Jorun also refers. Sol City sprawls across "The Chapter Ends" in Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History and "The Star Plunderer" in his Technic History.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Anderson's "The Little Monster" shows us TRULY early human beings! And "The Long Remembering" shows us some of the last Neanderthals as they were being displaced by "modern" humans.

And one character in "The Nest" is half Neanderthal.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

All the options.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And more could probably be added.

Ad astra! Sean