Friday, 10 April 2026

Different Writers And Different Histories

We can compare future histories by different sf writers or different future histories by one sf writer, Poul Anderson. The immediately preceding post is enriched by comparisons of details in:

the Psychotechnic History
the Technic History
the Harvest Of Stars History
the Time Patrol (a past and future history)

- and there have also been recent references to Genesis and Maurai which leaves only Kith, Rustum and Flying Mountains not mentioned.

While I type in this language that will become Anglic or Anglo, Sheila's relatives, our house guests, converse around me in incomprehensible Northern Irish accents and it is time to give up the struggle.

Good night and peace on Earth (which still makes sense as an aspiration).

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Kaor, Paul!

Anderson/Dickson's Hoka stories could also had been listed, containing as they do concepts like the United Commonwealths/Inter-Being League.

Those incomprehensible northern Irish accents is an example of how languages changes with times and locations.

Short of the second coming of Christ, I believe some kind of peace will come to Earth only when someone like Manuel Argos declares, "Peace, ye underlings!"

Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

If you think northern Irish accents are hard, try outport Newfie...