In the continuing battle to save the timelines, Mark Strang heads to skies of Colonial
America and 18th-century Britain.
She might have said more except that at that moment the sky darkened above us; a
passenger dirigible was coming in. I wondered how Chrys was reacting to all this; I knew
her home civilization was spacefaring,but after some roaming around in the timelines you
realize that’s a bit like knowing that a civilization uses counterpoint in music or the
arch a lot in architecture—it isn&rsquyo;t the fact that they use it, but what they do
with it, that really matters.