On 2/13/06, Jim Sharkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fair enough. Well, I think the Rachel/Kassad timelines diverge and > converge at times, so that's one-and-half or two, depending on your > POV. I'd say Brawne Lamia's timeline could be thought of as > another, while Het Masteen's could be third. > > But that's only thoughts after the fact. Certainly the pilgrims > share a common past, and while they seem to have possibly divergent > futures, I never really thought of their futures as separate > timelines. But then, metaphysics has never been my strong suit. :) > > Jim
I never thought of putting it in per-character terms. I always broke it down into factions- ie. you had the first timeline, in which TechnoCore and humand warred, which sent back Mnemosyne; you had the other timeline with the twin UIs, which dispatched one of the shrikes, and you had a third faction which sent back yet *another* shrike to fetch Weintraub's daughter (which I suspect to have been the Reaper faction). At least, three timelines made the most sense to me. I'd be interested to hear your thinking on it. ~Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
