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THE LIFE OF HADRIAN MARLOWE

A TIMELINE


What follows is an abridged record of the life of Hadrian Marlowe, from his birth on ISD 16117.09.29 through to the conclusion of this volume. This timeline is not entirely comprehensive. Whole volumes of Lord Marlowe’s account appear to be lost—or else were left out of this iteration of his memoir. The accounts of most of his major battles are missing. No account of the Battle of Senuessa, for instance, has ever been found. It is possible that there may be entire chapters of his life lost in the gaps between those periods attested to clearly in the text. Certain episodes enumerated below do not appear in the seven primary volumes (the last of which I am presently translating), but do appear in various apocryphon (such as the Nagramman Fragment, alternately called “Knowledge,” believed to be a fragment surviving from an earlier draft of The Sun Eater). These fragments are labelled here with their appropriate titles.

There is some hope that further fragments will be found. Lord Marlowe was a prolific diarist, as his writings both attest in themselves and attest to. But for the purposes of the readers of this translation, this abridged timeline should prove useful. It is oft remarked upon that the great lengths of time involved in star travel and the nature of cryonic fugue make tracking the biological age of any person difficult. As such, I have included my best guesses as to the biological age of Lord Marlowe at each phase of his life, basing my figures off those given by the man himself throughout the text. Where necessary, I have provided estimates based off of the available data and taking into account the man’s queer habit of declining to sleep for large portions of his numerous interstellar journeys. Scholars relying upon this table should thereby be made aware of its provisional nature.

Tor Paulos, Nov Belgaer: Colchis

ISD 17998.12.04


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