Lilisaire to Aleka:
"'You remember me telling you about my kinswoman Mary Carfax in San Francisco Bay Integrate, don't you?'" (p. 83)
So they have Integrates in the Harvest Of Stars future history as well as in the Technic History but there is a difference. Jim Ching lives in San Francisco Integrate whereas Mary Carfax lives in San Francisco Bay Integrate. Are these identical or is the latter bigger?
Such words or phrases are sometime, though not always, used to indicate that diverse texts belong in a single series. Alternatively, a terminological difference can indicate different series: English becomes Anglic in the Technic History but Anglo in the Harvest Of Stars series. In the latter, intelligent seals speak an adapted Anglo although with non-human sounds whereas the Lunarians, genetically altered human beings, construct an artificial language to express their psychological and cultural differences from Terrans. By contrast, the Technic History features various extraterrestrial languages: Planha on Ythri and Avalon, Eriau on Merseia etc.
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Kaor, Paul!
I think we should understand the "integrates" mentioned in both the Technic and HARVEST OF STARS series as referring to cities which became much larger than they are now. My view is that San Francisco and Chicago came to absorb all or large parts of the old states of California and Illinois. I can easily see the San Francisco integrate covering the entire northern half of California. And we see mention in "How To Be Ethnic..." of the San Fran integrate having a GOVERNOR, not a mere mayor.
Ad astra! Sean
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