Infinite energy is necessary to travel more than about seventy years into the past. However, could a time projector not overcome this limitation by making multiple short pastward journeys? Maybe each pastward journey builds up a potential that increases the energy needed for each "subsequent" journey? In any case, the projector would be halted by obstacles like mountains etc. Unable either to continue pastward or to emerge in the present, it would be obliged to return to the future.
We know that Saunders and Hull were not the only time travellers. There is unlimited scope for other stories set in this timeline. And what I would really like to see is a much longer Technic History.
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Kaor, Paul!
But Anderson wanted to move on to other ideas and themes after THE GAME OF EMPIRE, because everything he wanted to say in that timeline had been said. An aspiration I sympathize with despite wishing he had written one or two more Technic stories.
What kinds of additional Technic stories you would have liked to write? Or what questions answered, or gaps filled in?
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Diana's career. Whether Aycharaych survived and what he did next. To start with.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Both are good points. I would have liked to know more about Leon Ammon in later years, and whether he became a force for strengthening and stabilizing the Empire. That was what Flandry hoped would happen.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
There is so much more: series about Roan Tom, the Long Night, the Allied Planets, the Commonalty Rangers, the decline of Merseia etc.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
All of these are good suggestions, and I would have enjoyed one or two more Technic stories. Maybe Stirling will try his hand at a Dominic Flandry pastiche someday?
Ad astra! Sean
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