Maybe he exaggerates in order to impress his hosts and gain their cooperation?
Maybe his long isolation has deranged him so that he has lost touch with reality?
Since known space is a big place, maybe he comes from a region that is more advanced?
Maybe he comes from one of the post-Technic civilizations in the further future after "Starfog"?
Normally, I would start into quoting and analysing the details of what he does say but life is busy here right now. Maybe this evening.
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You could shoehorn it into the Technic history, but why bother?
Kaor, Paul!
While I agree with Stirling that it's not necessary to make "The Longest Voyage" a part of the Technic series, the idea is worth a little discussion. If we assume a Technic tie in, I think "Longest" should be thought of as taking place after the League and then the Empire fell. Because the colonists in this story would need time for both forgetting their true origins and allowing the most advanced nations rebuilding to a late 1500's level.
But Stirling is right, we should accept "The Longest Voyage" as a stand alone story.
One story I do wish could have been part of the Technic timeline is "Kyrie." I suspect Anderson did not try to do that because of the sheer difficulty of fitting in those flaming plasma beings into the Technic history. A pity, because "Kyrie" would have been a beautiful addition to the series, set perhaps in the early League?
Ad astra! Sean
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Paul and I have debated whether or not "The Chapter Ends" belongs in the Psychotechnic series, with me believing it does not. That story is simply too different from the undoubted Psychotechnic stories, too early Anderson, for me to accept it belongs there. I think it was Sandra Miesel who shoehorned "Chapter" into the Psychotechnic timeline.
If evidence is ever pub. showing "Chapter" is Psychotechnic then I would have to change my mind.
Ad astra! Sean
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