Friday 8 July 2022

Hoppers And Scooters II

(Sometimes a temporal vehicle is referred to by people who do not know what it is.)

"Delenda Est"
anti-gravity scooter, p. 176
scooter, pp. 178, 212, 213, 214 (x2), 215, 222
vehicle, p. 177
machines, p. 214
machine, pp. 179, 215
traveling machine, p. 209
magic engine, p. 212
wain, p. 212
engine, p. 213

"Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks"
hopper, pp. 280, 281, 324
vehicle, pp. 281, 326
machine, pp. 281, 323
time hopper, p. 322
vehicles, pp. 322, 324, 326

"The Sorrow of Odin the Goth"
vehicle, p. 341
hopper, pp. 341, 374
machine, p. 341
mount, p. 369
eldritch steed, p. 394
skeletal horse, p. 434

We should add that Denison's vehicle is described as a "brazen horse" on p. 83. No "cycles" yet.

7 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

A "skeletal" or "brazen" horse is not how I would describe a time hopper.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

It is a "horse" in that someone sat on it and it seemed to be a means of locomotion. It is "skeletal" or "brazen" in that it was merely glimpsed and would be remembered inaccurately.

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

But "skeletal" brought up connotations of "bones" and "skeletons." And "brazen" made me think of something which was metallic.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

I agree that "skeletal" sounds wrong. I think that timecycles are metallic.

Paul.

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Kaor, Paul! Almost certainly made from strong, light weight metallic alloys. Ad astra! Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Note also that people have difficulty "seeing" things that are outside their experience; because much of what we think of as "seeing" is actually a few clues filled out with stored data.

So something very strange isn't actually "seen" very well at all. It takes repeated exposure before it starts looking 'real'.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Mr. Stirling!

I agree, and that, alas, has happened to me. I don't claim to be unusually OBSERVANT.

Ad astra! Sean