tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post2066724629251545072..comments2024-03-28T07:57:49.338+00:00Comments on Poul Anderson Appreciation: Dating A Future History SeriesKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-41302372281884328602016-10-30T15:05:36.216+00:002016-10-30T15:05:36.216+00:00Kaor, Paul!
Of course I agree with you. The Chron...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />Of course I agree with you. The Chronology worked out by Sandra Miesel and which I revised contains dates which can only be mostly approximate.<br /><br />However, in "Time Lage," a non Technic story, Poul Anderson gave us a rare example of how he could use precise dates when he chose to do so. The mostly Finnish settled colony on the planet Vaynamo used a a calendar dating years A.C.C., "From the Founding of the Colony."<br /><br />Poul Anderson preferred not to use dates because doing risked making his stories quickly obsolete. I think he worked out a definite timeline for his Psychotechnic Institute stories, but I doubt he published it. Again, the dates we have for that series were Sandra Miesel's approximations.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-60735126913800841662016-10-30T07:00:48.985+00:002016-10-30T07:00:48.985+00:00Sean,
I agree that Technic civilization would keep...Sean,<br />I agree that Technic civilization would keep the BC/AD dating system. However, all that we can do is try to calculate the periods of time between events in the Technic History. We do not know what years AD the events would occur in.<br />Paul.Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538502828554372917.post-79838483824693675692016-10-30T01:29:55.665+01:002016-10-30T01:29:55.665+01:00Kaor, Paul!
I have my doubts that Technic Civiliz...Kaor, Paul!<br /><br />I have my doubts that Technic Civilization, springing directly as it does from the Western, would abandon the BC/AD era dating system. After all Christianity continued to remain, it seems, the most numerous and widely dispersed of human faiths. And that too would encourage keeping the BC/AD dating system. Naturally, of course, planets colonized by humans would use calendars adapted to the actual lengths of days and the times it took for planets to orbit their stars in a local year.<br /><br />SeanSean M. Brookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13973738112230622557noreply@blogger.com