From calculations made
here, we may infer that, in 2022, Jean Broberg is seven plus years of age and Mark Danzig is twenty-five plus. But this is not our 2022. "The Saturn Game" was published in 1981. Between 1981 and 2057 in the Technic History timeline, there is the Chaos and a massive space program launched by more than one country. The
J. Peter Valk goes to Mars, then the
Vladimir is lost en route to Mercury and a Britannic-American consortium launches the
Chronos which takes eight years to reach Saturn. The Technic History timeline must diverge from ours before 2022 and probably before Danzig's birth about 1997. 2022 is the year in our timeline when I happen to be writing this post and the Technic History will have passed through its version of a 2022 but otherwise this date has no particular significance.
The Chronology for Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History has the Planetary Engineering Corps founded in 2055.
Isaac Asimov's Susan Calvin, born in 1982, retires at age seventy-five and dies aged eighty-two and Stephen Byerley completes his second term as World Co-ordinator in 2052.
Despite the title of its Volume III, Revolt In 2100, Robert Heinlein's Future History has the Second American Revolution occurring before 2075. Volumes I and II of the Future History cover the period 1951-2000.
However, the ends of these future histories remain a long way in the future and some other future histories go even further: Olaf Stapledon's Last And First Men and Star Maker and Anderson's Genesis.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Minamoto's article was pub. on the Moon in 2057, so I argued the events recorded in "The Saturn Game" occurred a few years before then, in 2055.
Yes, theoretically, old fogies like US are alive right now both when an actual, historical person like Dr. Friedman and characters from "The Saturn Game" are also alive. We are theoretically intersecting with the earliest stages of the Technic history!
Ad astra! Sean
Near-future stuff is the bane of future histories.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
True, but I still value well done "future histories" in science fiction.
Ad astra! Sean
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