Time Patrollers experience different versions of history. Keith Denison, having played the historical role of Cyrus the Great, sees the real Cyrus, who is younger than himself, and pronounces him satisfactory.
Lorenzo de Conti existed in a timeline where he did not kill King Roger of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, then in a timeline where he did. There is a third timeline in which Lorenzo, charging to the attack at Rignano, sees Everard approaching, smiles and begins to engage but is then rendered unconscious by a stun pistol concealed in a sword. Everard knows this to be a new version of history whereas Lorenzo, while he is in any one timeline, knows nothing of any of the others.
We are used to different versions of stories but not of history.
I would have discussed this at greater length and might do later but right now I am about out of it. After posting and commenting earlier today, I have attended a demonstration, then a firework display, then eaten in a restaurant, then returned home to meditate and resume commenting and blogging and now want to read something else before turning in. The days are too short and so on.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Alternate worlds/universes stories are variants of what we see in "Amazement of the World," such as THREE HEARTS AND THREE LIONS, and the OPERATION books.
Some of the planets we see in Anderson's Technic stories have longer or shorter days than ours. Human colonists on Unan Besar had to adapt to that world's very short days, taking several short "sleeps" over 24 hours or so.
Ad astra! Sean
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