Another short story, “Memories of the Space Age,” shares certain similarities with “Myths of the Near Future”; they both introduce main characters that are being haunted by memories of their own past involvement in the space programme. Both men, while believing that they are achieving something meaningful, appear to the reader as slowly going mad instead. Both of the characters have also experienced confusion by the past and the future, and eventually come to conclude that one’s perception of time is merely a product of one’s imagination. “Memories of the Space Age” has the narrator describing the story’s main protagonist — astronaut Hinton, as, similarly to Sheppard, quite unstable, by claiming that “[i]n its closing days, the space programme
