Virgil sets. There is no twilight. Alpha and Beta Crucis, the Milky Way and thousands of other stars are immediately visible. The Ilian continental shelf becomes utterly black. Lavinian moonlight silvers the Antonine Seabed.
"A tadmouse piped into the mordant wind." (p. 424)
In The Day Of Their Return, Tatiana Thane has a pet tadmouse.
Despite its subject matter, this is a hasty breakfast post but dig the details. We remember Aeneas although we have never been there.
2 comments:
Poul had few rivals at successfully getting across the lived-in feel of an actual landscape.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I agree. And you are also very good at giving readers that "lived in" feeling in your books. I consider you a worthy colleague and successor of Anderson.
Ad astra! Sean
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