Wednesday 2 May 2018

Argent Flood Of The Milky Way

How often is it possible to reread a single short story and find more to post about? I thought that we had exhausted "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" but we had not.

Back to Falkayn:

He reads information about a planet from a "crowded...microreel" so our information technology has surpassed his. ("A Sun Invisible," II, p. 272 IN The Van Rijn Method)

He sees:

"...the great argent flood of the Milky Way." (VI, p. 306)

There is more but I am needed elsewhere!

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Yes, I recall mention of "reels" in ENSIGN FLANDRY and THE REBEL WORLDS. In those stories our information technology surpassed what we see there. But I think Anderson "modernized" that kind of technology in THE GAME OF EMPIRE.

Sean