"Captain Rewi Lohannaso held an engineering degree from the University of Wellantoa in N'Zealann. He spoke several languages, and his Ingliss was not the debased dialect of some Merican tribe..."
-There Will Be Time, XI, p. 117.
"Ranu had been born and bred in N'Zealann; his Maurai genes were too mixed with the old fretful Ingliss....
"Sailors couldn't be bothered with glamorous tresses, even on a trimaran as broad and stable as this...
"The Lohannaso Shippers' Association, to which she and Ranu were both related by blood, preferred to minimize crews...
"'Wellantoa registry.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Progress" IN Anderson, Maurai And Kith (New York, 1982), pp. 73-137 AT pp. 74-75, 80.
Thus, the Maurai, like Constantinople, are incorporated into the There Will Be Time timeline. We read "Progress" without imagining time travelers lurking in the background - or, alternatively, we can imagine this, having read There Will Be Time.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
One thing I thought of was that this linking up of the Maurai stories with THERE WILL BE TIME came rather late in the history of the former, when in fact the Maurai were declining.
Ad astra! Sean
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