Christian Brannock and Laurinda Ashcroft are neither time travellers like Poul Anderson's Manse Everard and Jack Havig nor bodily immortals like Hanno in Anderson's The Boat Of A Million Years. They have a different relationship to time and mortality. Billions of years after their own physical deaths, they experience, in a number of AI virtual realities, what it would have been like to visit earlier historical periods and alternative timelines. We recognize Andersonian themes but in a new, creatively imaginative, context.
This may be my last input for a little while. At 7:00 AM tomorrow, some of us will depart in a coach to London, returning some time that evening. I will have Internet access neither before departure nor en route. My electronic communication will be confined to texting a few friends. Meanwhile, comments on this blog will remain welcome and, gods willing, I will return soon.
To those who read, good flight.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Enjoy your holiday in London! Will you be too busy to go to any bookstores?
Ad astra! Sean
Have a good time! I've never been bored in London, except at the airport... 8-).
A day trip from this far away is only for a specific purpose, not for a holiday! Hardly any time for anything.
Kaor, Paul!
Oops! Well, I hope you achieved that specific purpose.
Ad astra! Sean
Those two are time travelers -- but only into the future!
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