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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Over the Hill: Five Not-So-Youthful SFF Protagonists
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 19:42:49 -0700
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William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> writes:

> James Nicoll wrote:
>> Over the Hill: Five Not-So-Youthful SFF Protagonists
>> Protagonists in their late twenties or even older are still alive
>> in many senses of the word, and can still have adventures, of a sort.
>> Brought to you by a conversation I overheard between teens.
>> https://reactormag.com/over-the-hill-five-not-so-youthful-sff-protagonists/
>> 
>
> Leaving out immortals or quasi/immortals:
>
>
> Captain Henry of Laumer and Dickson's "Planet Run" is 135, though a
> dangerous rejuvenation treatment at the beginning of the book reduces
> his physical age.  He is not immortal as each treatment has an
> increasing chance of being fatal.
>
> Louis Wu is 200 in the later stories.
>
> Heinlein had quite a few older protagonists, even ignoring LL.  Jubal
> Harshaw, for example.
>
> In Anderson's last Flandry book, the hero is rather getting on, though
> young for his age and Van Rijn is never young.
>
> Vance's protagonists were a pretty active bunch, but IIRC Magnus
> Ridolph was at least in late middle age.
>
> William Hyde

Has anyone yet mentioned Lucas Garner, from Niven's ARM stories?

  -Don-