Trent Shipley wrote: > > The timeline has been very slightly modified to accomodate two > literary coincidences that should bother no one but Alberto. > Yes, such coincidences bother me :-)
> 1492: Discovery of the Americas > 1961: Yuri Gagarin in space > 2211: First contact, 500 years after 1961 (Over Alberto M.'s vigorous > objection that it should remain 2212.) > That's because I don't like to contradict written material - not that one year plus or less will change too many things. BTW, this is one reason why I'd rather use CE dates instead of Contact dates: it's easy to mess with AxC and BxC dates and introduce typographical errors, but it's more difficult to change the now-set-in-stone dates of Sundiver, Startide Rising and Heaven's Reach. > 2492: Action resumes with the next Uplift Novel, 1000 years after > discovery of the Americas. > > Added entry that Cuthmar reaches Earth in 2212. > Ok, maybe we can assume that the encounter with the Tymbrimi was so close to the New Year that the date became ambiguous. If, say, we had an encounter at December 29, would it make sense to start a New Era in that year, or wait two days and start it in the next New Year? > >> [there are many references to 300 Jijo Years of Human Occupation >> in Jijo, but I can always assume that 300 is a close approximation >> to 280] > > Done. See entry. [NB. We are now talking about at most 225 years of > Humans on Jijo. Can you reconcile the timelines?] > Huh? 225 _Earth_ Years correpond to 281.25 Jijo Years, more or less [because Jijo's Year is (multi-luni)-solar]. Jijo's Timeline is written in Jijo Years, because that's what they use. > > revised timeline follows. [By the way, this has been a lot of work. Do we > want DB's imprimateur?] > Not until we have full support of the College of Cardinals :-) Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
