Théo Guderian
Names: Théo GuderianProfessor Guderianpoor Théo
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 1 (Prologue)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 1Guderian is a dying professor of dynamic field-physics near Lyon who discovered a way back to the Pliocene Epoch, published in 2034.
- Ch 1Guderian is an old man who has been visited by colleagues and who calls his work a 'peculiar little experiment'.
- Ch 1Guderian leaves the practical application of his experiment to others, saying he bequeaths it to sharper minds.
- Ch 1Guderian winks at the outworld humans and empties a dustpan of the hipparion's ashes into a wastebasket.
- Ch 9Built the experimental time-gate apparatus in the cellar of the cottage; he died before the story's events, leaving death duties.
Book 4: The Adversary
- Ch 1Guderian wrote that geomagnetic input is critical to focusing the time-warp, which underpins Marc's plan.
Connections
- family ofMadame Guderianwife
- createdGuderian's device
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 1Guderian's demonstration
Guderian shows visiting scientists his Pliocene time-gate near Lyon, retrieving a Hipparion that dies into dust, and explains the one-way trip.
- Book 1 · Ch 1Guderian ends the demonstration
Guderian laughs off his colleagues' praise, invites them up to Madame for refreshment, and sweeps the ashes of a hipparion into the wastebasket, where they float on green alien slime.