Future History Structures

Future histories have interesting structures.

Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History divides into the slower than light (STL) and faster than light (FTL) periods.

Anderson's Technic History divides into pre-Flandry, Flandry and post-Flandry periods. There are other refinements that I have summarized too often to repeat here.

Anderson's Genesis divides into human and post-human periods. Humanity is re-created in the "post-human" period but we have to read on to learn that.

In Genesis, PART ONE, Chapters V, VI, VIII and IX describe the future of Earth:

in V, Terra Central converses intimately with Laurinda Ashcroft;

in VI, the Worldguide dictates to feuding clans;

in VIII, Serdar and Naia merely refer to the remote Ecumenicon;

in IX, the omniscient narrator refers simply to "the intelligence."

In PART TWO, Gaia converses with a fellow post-organic. The omniscient narrator revives the word, "organism," to refer to members of the galactic brain although most of their life processes are on the quantum level.