Talk:Misspent Youth

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What is the origin of the phrase "misspent youth?" Isn't it a reference to an earlier work?

[edit] Short novel?

Why is a 439 page book referred to as a "short novel"? Is this some kind of joke? <KF> 13:59, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

That's what I was about to say. I'll remove "short" now. Grey Shadow 03:36, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I guess it's 'short' for regular readers of Hamilton's -- his regular novels usually span at least a thousand pages... -- Bakabaka 08:58, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Time period of the novel

I've changed the time period for the novel from 2030 to 2040 and removed the reason (Jeff Baker being a student in the 1970's). Also changed the time between Misspent Youth and Pandora's Star to 340 years for the same reason.

The reason for this change is because of what is said in the prologue to Pandora's Star:

"When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were landing on the moon, they had to hurriedly take manual control of their Lunar Module and fly it to safety when the designated landing site turned out to be strewn with boulders. This time, eighty-one years later, satellite imagery and orbital radar mapping had eliminated such uncertainty from the flight profile."

This gives a definate date of 2050 for the time period of the prologue and the below gives us an indication that Misspent Youth is set 7 to ten years earlier:

"Now that the early bugs had been ironed out of the hugely expensive procedure, they’d begun to rejuvenate people. The first man to receive the treatment, Jeff Baker, had died in a climax of global publicity; but in the following seven years there had been eighteen successes."'

chitman13 14:30, 14 December 2006 (UTC)