See:
From his cell in the prison satellite, Hugh McCormac alternately sees:
the night side of the planet, Llynathawr, with a red and gold sunrise and lights flickering in the city of Catawrayannis;
the planet as a scimitar close to its sun;
the full planet as a brilliant shield with oceans, clouds and continents.
Llynathawr looks like distant Terra and unlike McCormac's rusty and tawny home planet of Aeneas.
The Rebel Worlds, I.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
A nice science fictional touch: a PRISON satellite. And I can see such things being built if, WHEN we finally get off this rock!
And it's no use for some to bemoan the idea of such things, because I don't expect crime and the need to penalize criminals to just go away. So, we might see real prison satellites.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: not while human beings remain... 8-).
Poul guessed that planets would be common -- something unknowable then. And he was right; most stars turn out to have planets, though the distribution is often not at all similar to our solar system.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I'm always interested and pleased to see comments by you here. Yes, as long as men and women are HUMAN, we are going to have crime--and hence the need to penalize and control it.
Anderson was right to believe planets would be common. Altho not quite as correct about how planets of a star might be distributed.
Ad astra! Sean
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