/lit/ - Literature

When exactly does this take place?

There is ZERO discussion on the internet about time frame/years/dates which I find very curious given how old these books are, SOMEBODY should have asked this before now, and there isn't even a wiki for the series like there is with virtually all other sci fi book series which is also extremely curious because there is plenty of tech, locations and characters to autistically dissect.

Anyway it's written that the character Peter in the second book was in the Hitler Youth, so he must have been born in the late 1920s. We know humans don't live significantly longer despite Full Medical, so since Peter isn't more than 100 years old or so the series can't be taking place later than 2020 or so, Robinette probably started in the 2000s. But I don't know, it doesn't seem like your typical "in the year 1999 we will have flying cars and sentient machines" sci fi. Humans have intra-solar space cruisers, medical machines and MU/TH/UR-like ship AIs.