Timeline
From Earth Central
Contents |
Dated events
| Time | Event | Book |
|---|---|---|
| 2110 | Cryon Corporation develops Bubble Metal | Gridlinked, Chapter 13 |
| 2150 | First Golem android manufactured by Cybercorp | Gridlinked, Chapter 17 |
| 2151 | Algin Tenkian is born on Mars.
Jovian Separatist crisis. | Gridlinked |
| 2257 | ECS develops photoreactive fibers used to make chameleonwear | Gridlinked, Chapter 20 |
| 2376 | Maria Convala born on Aster Colora | Gridlinked, Chapter 11 |
| 2383 | Runcible installed on Samarkand | Gridlinked, Chapter 13 |
| 2397 | Wide-spectrum superconductors introduced, used in Runcibles | Gridlinked, Chapter 13 |
| 2407 | Cormac meets Dragon on Aster Colora, Dragon detonates itself | Gridlinked, Chapter 11 |
| 2432 | Unbuffered jump destroys Samarkand runcible | Gridlinked, Chapter 1 |
| 2434 | Hubris arrives at Samarkand | Gridlinked, Chapter 12 |
Also see this post on Neal Asher's blog.
Stories in publication order
- Adaptogenic (short story) (1994)
- The Engineer (reconditioned) (1998)
- Runcible Tales (1999)
- Gridlinked (2001)
- The Skinner (2002)
- Line of Polity (2003)
- Watch Crab (short story) (2003)
- Brass Man (2005)
- Polity Agent (2006)
- Voyage of the Sable Keech (2006)
- Prador Moon (2006)
- Hilldiggers (2008)
- Line War (2007)
- Shadow of the Scorpion (2008)
Stories in historical order
Events depicted in the stories can be generally put into three times: The Prador wars. 5 centuries later, the events on Spatterjay starting with The Skinner, approximately 500 years later. The Cormac series, at an unspecified later time.
Prador Wars
Spatterjay
Ian Cormac
- Shadow of the Scorpion (End of the Prador War)
- Gridlinked
- Line of Polity
- Brass Man
- Polity Agent
- Line War
Unknown
- Adaptogenic (short story)
- The Engineer
- The Thrake
- Runcible Tales (needs to be split up into the contained stories)
- Watch Crab (short story)
- Hilldiggers
- Africa Zero (story)
- The Army of God and the Sauruman
Notes
| “ | I was attached to the Planetary Survey Corps in 2433. | „ |
| —Paul G6B33, a Golem Six, Adaptogenic | ||
This would put Paul's work for the Planetary Survey Corps into the same time as the incidents on Samarkand, yet during that time in Gridlinked Golem revisions up to Thirty are in use, so it's rather unlikely a Golem Six would have been working then.
The Engineer: My assumption is that the Jain creature is found after the events surrounding Skellor and Jain tech during the Cormac stories, or otherwise Cormac would have been told about them. However Asher says in the foreword that it could also be the case that the AIs aren't telling the whole truth. - Lasar 18:58, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
