Saturday 14 April 2018

"Starfog"

"Starfog," the concluding installment of Poul Anderson's History of Technic Civilization, has so far given us:

The Milky Way 
Conation
Living In The Galaxy
7100
Inside The Cloud Universe
Commonalty Rangers
Through Space
Kirkasant And Commonalty
On Kirkasant
The Pathetic Fallacy In The Cloud Universe
Daven Laure
Serieve
Serieve II 
Galactic SF II
The Commonalty
The Center Of The Cloud Universe
Exploring The Center Of The Cloud Universe

See also the references to the Cloud Universe in Unusual Heavenly Bodies. 

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And it was the high radiation background of the "Cloud Universe" which inevitably affected the ancestors of the Kirkasanters who found themselves in the globular cluster. Most humans would not care to permanently settle on planets in such a region.

It's my opinion that while the Kirkasanters descend from the McCormac rebels, not all of them settled on what became Kirkasant. Why should they? McCormac had enough ships and other resources that he could take the needed to find a really satisfactory terrestroid planet, not a planet as marginal as Kirkasant. Most likely, the Kirkasanters descend from a single McCormac ship which either got accidentally separated from the main flotilla or did so on purpose.

Sean