-The Peregrine, CHAPTER IV, p. 23.
"'You haven't seen starlight till you've been by Sagittarius.'"
-"The Chapter Ends," p. 201.
Poul Anderson tells us somewhere and Wikipedia confirms that the Galactic centre is in the direction of Sagittarius. In The Peregrine, human civilization has a Sagittarian frontier whereas, in "The Chapter Ends," the whole civilization has moved beyond that frontier to the Galactic centre.
Thus, in the Psychotechnic History, mankind moves through time from World War III in 1958 to the evacuation of the Sirian Sector fifty thousand years after the fall of the First Empire and through space from Europe to the Galactic centre beyond Sagittarius.
A long way. Unfortunately, our last sight of the history is just on Earth, not at the centre.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And I still need actual evidence that Anderson intended "The Chapter Ends" to be part of the Psychotechnic series. It still reads like an early, non-series, stand alone story to me.
Ad astra! Sean
OTOH, it's set so far in the future that many histories could lead to it... 8-).
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I did think, assuming "Chapter" is a Psychotechnic timeline story, if it was set at least 60,000 years in the future!
Ad astra! Sean
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