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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: Sat, 20 Jul 2024 17:00:55 -0400
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Don_from_AZ wrote:
> 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?

I knew there was a better example than Louis Wu.

Garner shows up in a number of other works, but "Protector" is the only 
one I am sure of.


William Hyde