Edmond Beynac thinks that the nickel-iron mined in Tycho was part of the core of a large body that used to orbit in the Asteroid Belt region. Thus, the widely separated parts of the Solar System interacted as a single three-dimensional environment long before humanity had evolved.
Dagny Beynac supervises the construction of Tychopolis. Thus, Anderson out-Heinleins Heinlein because the latter's only reference to early days on the Moon is when Anna Stone, Service Manager of the Luna City Community Association, says:
"'I was here when Luna City was three air-sealed Quonset huts connected by tunnels you crawled through on your knees.'"
-Robert Heinlein, "'It's Great To Be Back!'" IN Heinlein, The Green Hills Of Earth (London, 1967), pp. 74-92 AT p. 74.
The Future History bypasses the laborious processes of prospecting, mining and building.
(Rhysling, Dahlquist and the Lunar Stones are three personal connections between Heinlein's Future History and his "Juvenile Future History.")
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
"Service Manager of the Lunar City Community Association" also seems a laborious way of NOT saying, much more simply, "Mayor of Lunar City"!
Ad astra! Sean
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