Re: (ReacTor) Over the Hill: Five Not-So-Youthful SFF Protagonists

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