Changing Perspectives

"For centuries after the War of Judgment, the Annaman Islands lay deserted."

-"Progess," p. 84.

 

In this short story, the War of Judgment is a major historical event.

"The War of Judgment, he said, would by no means be the simple capitalist-versus-Communist slugfest which most of us imagined in the 1950's."

-There Will Be Time, V, p. 53.

In this novel, the War of Judgment is a future event discussed by a twentieth century time traveler who knows that it will happen but has yet to learn how and why it will happen. Poul Anderson pulls his readers back to a completely different perspective.

"...missions from Awaii had originally turned those aerial pirates to more peaceable ways."

-"Progress," p. 88.

 

The first Maurai story is called "The Sky People." The pacification of its title characters, who are sky pirates, shows that "Progress" is set a long time later.