Generations

Sorry to be so absent lately but other retirement activities are time-consuming like walking from Lancaster to the village of Caton along the River Lune and getting the bus back, going to see The Batman and rereading CS Lewis.

Future history series are paced differently. Centuries elapse between the installments of Poul Anderson's Maurai History whereas his Rustum History advances by generations. Thus, near the beginning of "A Fair Exchange," Dan Coffin's wife, Eva, nurses their baby - who will not be able to live in the lowlands. That problem, physically separating Rustumites, persists. Dan has now lived at Lake Moondance for thirty-five Rustumite years, twenty Terrestrial, so this future history progresses although more slowly than many others. As yet, we know of developing events only on a single planet but that will change in the remaining two installments.