Keith Denison, captive, but with some influence over his captor, directs the construction of a garden visible from above as an hour glass in a heraldic shield but surrounded by a circle and crossed by a red line, a warning to time travellers. However, before the garden is completed, while Denison, his captor and armed guards walk through its proposed site, Wanda Tamberly arrives on a timecycle to rescue Denison. She prevents the signal that had alerted her to the presence of a trapped Time Patrol agent.
When comparing the weather in the two versions of 25 March 1984, Tamberly reflects that, in her home timeline, human beings had cut down forests, ploughed plains and filled skies and rivers with chemicals but had also invented liberty, eradicated smallpox and launched spacecraft. That conflict between progress and pollution approaches its climax in our timeline.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The same reasoning given by Manse Everard to Keith Denison in "Brave To Be A King" for not appearing "earlier" in his time as "Cyrus" would seem to apply here as well. But, I realize did not/would not care about "preserving" the alpha timeline.
Ad astra! Sean
Human beings have always modified their environment -- the extinction of the postglacial megafauna being a conspicuous example. We're the reason there aren't any saber-tooths or mammoths around.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
But I kinda hope scientists might be able to use cloning to bring back mammoths from extinction! Or even some of the dinosaurs!
Ad astra! Sean
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