We learn that the Time Patrol second hand bookshop in San Francisco is in the Cow Hollow district.
The instruments on Wanda Tamberly's timecycle tell her that she is there although she is surrounded by wilderness. She recognizes Nob Hill and Russian Hill but they are covered by brush, not by buildings. Twin Peaks lacks the television tower. She has materialized on the surface instead of underground.
There is no:
San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
Bay Bridge
Eastbay cities
ships
aircraft
Oakland
Berkeley
Albany
Richmond
Golden Gate Park
What there is is:
"...the wind and the world." (p. 307)
The world without the works of man and, of course, the wind.
Wanda continues to think that she has arrived at the wrong time, not in the wrong timeline. But she will begin to suspect otherwise when she has flown east before the end of this chapter.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI thought the Empire of the Frederick II we see in "Amazement of the World" had expanded to the Americas as far west as the site of San Francisco before collapsing? Shouldn't Wanda have seen the ruins of the city founded there by that realm?
Ad astra! Sean
Don't know.
ReplyDeleteThat's the "Church wins" timeline. The Frederick timeline -did- have a city on the site of San Francisco.
ReplyDeleteI thought that was it.
ReplyDeleteKaor, to Both!
ReplyDeleteI think "the Church wins" timeline has European settlement of North America only going as far west as the Mississippi River.
Yet again I'm annoyed at how I somehow mislaid my copy of THE SHIELD OF TIME.
Ad astra! Sean
We can follow Anderson by calling them the alpha and beta timelines.
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