Rudbeck At Lifthrasir Tor

Harvest Of Stars, 51.

Basil Rudbeck is the Director of the biocybernetic laboratory at Lifthrasir Tor on Demeter and:

"Rudbeck was a descendant of Guthrie's living self." (p. 441)

Rudbeck converses with download Guthrie whose braincase is carried by download Kyra who is in one of her robot bodies. The continuity of characters like Guthrie and Kyra conceals the narrative's future historical timescale. However, when download Guthrie converses with one of his own descendants, we are reminded that the original organic Anson Guthrie has been dead for a long time.

Lifthrasir is an appropriate mythological name for the location of the biocybernetic laboratory. Life will continue in ways that would once have been regarded as mythical.