Effectively, this is a time dilation novel. If a spaceship approaches light speed, then its mass increases while its internal duration decreases significantly. When this spaceship, the Explorer, reaches light speed by ceasing to be a mass and becoming, temporarily, a wave, its internal duration decreases to zero: the same effect but more so.
How does a modern man cope when transported into the past by time travel? Novels by Mark Twain and L. Sprague de Camp and two short stories by Poul Anderson.
How does a modern man cope when transported into the future by suspended animation, temporal stasis, time dilation or time travel? Too many works to list, including several by Anderson, including this one.
The adjustment begins when Captain Langely of the Explorer is interviewed by the:
"'...chief field officer of the Solar militechnic intelligence corps...'" (p. 28)
Langely has been hypnotically interrogated and educated in Solar. He learns some history:
6 comments:
The Solar agent has a tang of Flandry.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree, Chanthavar Tang voLurin is reminiscent of Flandry.
Ad astra! Sean
The Technate sounds like a compound of element 43 ;^)
Kaor, Jim!
And I thought of the AIs we see in the HARVEST OF STARS and GENESIS who came more and more to be the real rulers of Earth.
Ad astra! Sean
I was thinking of this :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertechnetate
Kaor, Jim!
Yes, but the founders of the Technarchy were probably thinking more in terms of technology, technical expertise, having a scientific cast of mind, etc.
Ad astra! Sean
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