Sigrid Holmen, travelling to a private interview with Carl Donnan, reflects:
"We are together, the two halves of the human race. We know now that man will live; there will be children and hearthfires on another Earth - in the end, on a thousand or a million other Earths." (p. 112)
That is the Andersonian future in any timeline. And hearthfires will outlast civilizations. In Poul Anderson's Technic History, the Terran Empire will become a fireside legend and, in Poul and Karen Anderson's The King Of Ys, the sunken city of Ys becomes a hearthside story. For both of these references, see here.
Multiple pasts and futures but one multiverse.
We again approach the conclusion of After Doomsday. Where after that?
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To be human is to attach all possible importance to the human race.
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