We, editorially speaking, are rereading Poul Anderson's
Harvest Of Stars Tetralogy, Volume II,
The Stars Are Also Fire, after first rereading Volume III,
Harvest The Fire. We have been following the narrative thread of the planetoid, Proserpina. So where will we go next? Well, in
The Stars Are Also Fire, the even-numbered "
The Mother of the Moon" chapters are a prequel to Volume I,
Harvest Of Stars, so that is where we should go next in the knowledge of earlier events that we had not yet been informed of at the time when
Harvest Of Stars was originally published.
Harvest Of Stars invests many pages in a long Andersonian chase sequence but eventually soars into interstellar space and a transcendent future that will be worth rereading.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I've been wondering about something: is the gravity of Earth too heavy for Lunarians to go there at all? Or merely uncomfortable?
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Too heavy, I think. Lunarians are never shown on Earth.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I've been thinking that too. We never see Lunarians on Earth, even for short stays. They can tolerate the gravity of Mars, however.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
I will look out for where it is explicitly stated that Lunarians cannot visit Earth.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I had been thinking spies or diplomatic representatives would be the Lunarians most likely to be on Earth.
Ad astra! Sean
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