GUIDE TO THE NEW AGE
ASANO
A practical companion who helps Graham encounter the future as a place rather than merely a political problem.
Asano accompanies Graham through several of the future's most important physical environments.
He helps bridge the enormous gap between a nineteenth-century consciousness and a world in which flight, layered cities and new social systems are ordinary.
His role becomes particularly important around the flying stages, where Graham discovers the monoplane.
Asano also accompanies Graham when the Master leaves ceremonial surroundings and enters the city to see how ordinary people actually live.
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WHY THIS CHARACTER MATTERS
Asano is less ideological than Graham, Helen or Ostrog. That makes him useful to the reader: his presence often accompanies chapters where the future must be physically understood before it can be politically judged.