Friday, 28 March 2025

Morning Stars

 

The Avatar, XXIII.

Computer-enhanced human consciousness perceives an exploding atom and:

"The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy." (p. 201)

Recognizing this sentence as Biblical and checking whether we have quoted it before, we find that we have quoted it twice but from another novel by Poul Anderson. See here. However, we have not quoted this sentence on any previous reading of The Avatar. Innumerable details remain to be found in Anderson's works.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Amen, what the angels, those sons of God, did! I'm sure that is exactly what the good angels who had not Fallen did at the Big Bang.

Ad astra! Sean