Serieve
Serieve II
"Starfog"
A Few Stars Gleamed
Walking On Serieve
Four Senses On Serieve
Despite the usual practice of building low, the Serievan city, Pelogard, is on an island where minerals can be extracted from sea water and is therefore built high. From an office high in a tower, Laure looks down across metal, concrete, glass and plastic buildings linked by trafficways and freight cables to the automated extractor plants, warehouses, sky-docks and cargo craft at the waterfront.
-copied from "Serieve" (see above).
Reading this paragraph, we of course accept that docks will be at the waterfront but why should "sky-docks" be there?
Immediately after "sky-docks," Anderson writes:
"Cargo craft moved ponderously in and out. Not many passenger vessels flitted between. Pelogard must be largely automated."
-Poul Anderson, "Starfog" IN Anderson, Flandry's Legacy (Riverdale, NY, 2012), pp. 709-794 AT p. 720.
"...flitted..." confirms that he refers to air, not sea, vehicles. OK: extractor plants extract minerals from sea water and flying craft transport the extracted minerals to other parts of Serieve.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Odd, I never noticed, in any particular way, those "sky docks" before. And the concept seems odd and scarcely practical. What would "sky docks" BE? Landing areas for aircraft on the tops of buildings?
Ad astra! Sean
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