(i) Juvenile sf novels by Robert Heinlein and James Blish.
(ii) The Horse And His Boy by CS Lewis, a very Heinleinian text.
(iii) Much of Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, in particular, when Diana Crowfeather runs away from home to avoid Navy school and a safe marriage:
"Meanwhile Tigeries were hunting through hills where wind soughed in waves across forests, and surf burst under three moons upon virgin islands."
-Poul Anderson, The Game Of Empire IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 189-453, AT Chapter One, p. 214.
(iv) The Peshawar Lancers, Conquistador and The Sky People by SM Stirling.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Heinlein wrote SF meant for adults before his lamentable decline as a writer started with STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, not just juveniles. I mean books like DOUBLE STAR, SIXTH COLUMN, and THE PUPPET MASTERS. Of these three I liked DOUBLE STAR the best.
Nice, the bit you quoted from THE GAME OF EMPIRE. But, the problem for Diana Crowfeather was that she could not breath the atmosphere of the lowlands of Imhotep, unless she either wore a mask and tanked air or got the kind of fairly minor surgery for atmosphere gills Targovi and other Tigeries obtained for long stays among humans or oxygen atmosphere planets. Altho not mentioned in GAME, I'm assuming humans could get that kind of surgery and atmosphere gills for long stays in the Imhotepan lowlands.
Sean
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