When peace is declared, Chris and Tabitha fly to an uninhabited area where imported plants have taken root. Grass and pine are Terrestrial. Trefoil is native. Sword-of-sorrow is native, I think.
A red and gold sunset over the sea signals the approaching end of the novel. The horizon loses itself:
"...in a sky deepening from violet to crystalline black." (p. 660)
Then:
"The evening star stood as a candle among the wakening constellations." (ibid.)
How many evening stars have we seen on how many planets?
The forest is dark, pine odors are sweet, the breeze is warm, harp vines ring and jewlleafs twinkle brightly. Only the sense of taste is absent.
But I like to end with an earlier scene:
"...the strewn and begardened city, the huge curve of uprising shoreline, the glitter on Falkayn Bay. Small cottony clouds sauntered before the wind, which murmured and smelled of livewell." (XIX, p. 647)
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
OUR "evening star," of course, is the planet Venus. But that was due to a combination of factors unlikely to occur in all that MANY planetary systems, IMO.
Sean
If a solar system has an inhabitable planet I would expect that planet to *not* be the innermost planet orbiting that star. So a planet that alternates between being the morning & evening star for the habitable planet is quite likely
Kaor, Jim!
I simply hope astronomers soon discover terrestroid planets not too many light years from us. And will some of those life, including intelligent life???
Ad astra! Sean
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