In Chapter 1, Ricardo Nansen rescues Michael Shaughnessy on a planet of Epsilon Eridani.
In 10, Shaughnessy visits a district that has come to called Kith Town. He refers to "...the kith of the starfarers..." (p. 81) and to "...kithfolk..." (ibid.) but the word, "kith," has not yet been given a capital initial except in the name of the district. He, Shaughnessy, has just returned from Aerie and Aurora in Our Lady and will shortly leave for a long sweep in Estrella Linda. While in Kith Town, Shaughnessy, seventy, visits his great-grandson, Ramil Shauny, who is a hundred and ten and the local mayor.
In 12, Shaughnessy, now very old and singing of Earth in Irish while playing a harp, expects to die on Feng Huang, a planet of Delta Pavonis.
Thus, the expanded Kith History in Starfarers becomes Chapters:
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Kaor, Paul!
So Michael Shaughnessy's great grandson lived to at least age 110? That's reminiscent of the antisenescence of the Technic stories, enabling people to live to about the same age. I can see something like that being possible, for real, in about 100 years.
And thanks for so painstakingly noting the Kith chapters in STARFARERS. I know Chapter 46 is a revision of "Ghetto." And I'm rather sorry Poul Anderson decided not to include a revised version of "The Horn of Time the Hunter" in the book.
I wrote a list of the Kith chapters on a piece of paper to keep with my copy of STARFARERS.
Ad astra! Sean
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