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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Over the Hill: Five Not-So-Youthful SFF Protagonists
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:38:11 -0400
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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