The Gilda Stories ends in the year 2050, the Earth is dying and people are leaving to another planet. The story has spanned over a vast amount of time, beginning before the Civil War. By having the story cover such a huge amount of time it is possible to truly grasp the fact that the characters are immortal, living for so long and watching the world change around them so much. Gilda became a vampire during a time when there were not even cars and now lives in a time when space travel and living on other planets is not just possible it is reality.
The massive span of time and the inclusion of this sci-fi fantasy like future does not really take away from the story though, like it easily could have. By including this strange future it adds to the immortality aspect of the vampires. The story starts a hundred years before the 1990s (the decade the book was published) and continues on for another sixty years into the future. It sort of brings about an expanded look on things than if the story had ended in the 1990s. Also the world was not ending in the 1990s but who knows what will happen in the year 2050.
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