Tuesday 2 May 2023

Information About Earth In "Lodestar"

Poul Anderson, "Lodestar" IN Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Riverdale, NY, March 2020), pp. 631-682.

Pp. 631-632 are Hloch's Earth Book Introduction to "Lodestar." Nothing about Earth.

On pp. 633-639, the trader team are on Tametha, then in space. Nothing about Earth.

Pp. 639-640 inform us that, for a decade after the events of Satan's World, Nicholas van Rijn had spent a comparatively leisurely period on Earth. From p. 640, van Rijn and his granddaughter, Coya Conyon, are in space but Coya reflects on her earlier life.

In her childhood, van Rijn would visit and take her sailing or to a live performance or around the Solar System. Her father, Malcolm Conyon, of Scottish/Hermetian and African/Nyanzan descent, had settled on Earth and married van Rijn's daughter, Beatrix Yeo. Coya thinks that she herself is "...a typical modern human." (pp. 643-644) Her generation is reviving patrilineal surnames whereas van Rijn's generation had seldom married. There is a familiar kind of generation gap but in reverse.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Exactly! As time passes mores and customs change. Here we see a younger generation rebelling against the laxer ways of their elders.

Ad astra! Sean