Monday 15 November 2021

On Jupiter And Jupiter V

"Somewhat more than one hundred and twelve thousand miles away, Edward Anglesey took off his helmet.

"He looked around, blinking. It was always a little unreal to find himself here again, in the clean, quiet orderliness of the control room."
-Poul Anderson, "Call Me Joe" IN Rick Katze and Lis Carey (Eds.), The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 1: Call Me Joe (NESFA Press, Framingham, MA, 2009), pp. 11-36 AT p. 11.

"Helmuth...tore off his fireman's helmet.
"Obediently, the Bridge vanished....
"The abrupt transition from the storm-ravaged deck of the Bridge to the quiet, placid air of the operations shack on Jupiter's fifth moon was always a shock. He had never been able to anticipate it, let alone become accustomed to it; it was worse each time, not better."
-James Blish, They Shall Have Stars IN Blish, Cities in Flight (London, 1981), pp. 7-129 AT CHAPTER TWO, p. 32; CHAPTER FOUR, p. 47.

Both Anglesey and Helmuth:
 
sit in a building on Jupiter V;
don a helmet;
exercise remote control on Jupiter.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

The quiet, businesslike understatedness of Anglesey strikes me as more likely than the violence of Helmuth.

Ad astra! Sean