"It was the past, the uncomplicated past seen far away at the end of the golden corridor of nostalgia, the rural simple world of yesterday untouched by the clamour of a thousand industrial machines, the roar of international revolution and the steady ruthless progress of science."
-Susan Howatch, Cashelmara (London, 2005), I, 3, [2], p. 35.
Howatch's narrator wants to escape down that corridor, away from the issues addressed by science fiction. These temporal corridors have taken us away from Poul Anderson but not entirely away. The basic common themes are humanity and change.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
But the past can only SEEM to look uncomplicated, when "seen" from a distance. Real peoples, societies, nations, etc., of the past were just as chaotic and complicated as anything we have.
Ad astra! Sean
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