[LMB] 100 years later

[William A Wenrich]

I'm a fan of displaced in time (1632, Island in the sea of Time) and lost
colony (Pern, RAH's Universe even if it was a starship) stories. Stories of
people scrambling around trying to save what they can of the tech they know,
but don't have the tools to make the tools to make the tools, etc.   There
is certainly room for a story or two in that genre at the beginning of the
TOI. I don't recall ever seeing what was happened 100 years after the event
(time jump, mutiny, wormhole closing). Pern was set much later and, in the
early books, there was not much acknowledgement that Pern was even a colony.
(Except for the phrase, "By the void that spawned us!") I'm not sure of the
timeframe covered in Canticle for Lebowitz.

The 100 year time frame would mean that those who remember the high
technology era are dead and even their children would have fading memories
of them. (Direct memories of people in that first generation could last a
long time. I believe John Adams grand-daughter lived to 1916!) How much
culture could be carried forward  (Shakespeare) and how much tech with what
odd side items noted. (Remember the gold musket ball?)

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William A. Wenrich
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