The sun, Phoebe, sets behind the Capitol on the brow of Anvil Hill at the end of Pioneer Avenue. Eopolis is intermingled dwellings, small factories, stores etc surrounded by lawns and flowers. The Europa River flows to Apollo Bay and the Hephaestian Sea with green farms but also some remaining blue mariflora and raincatch on the further shore. Frailies and bucearos fly to their nests while starlarks hunt. Cool air bears wild scents.
Broderson's favourite poet is Kipling. He, Broderson, thinks that Demeter is beautiful but wants the universe.
Broderson and his family live on Mountain Road in the Eglise de St Michel suburb where houses and gardens are separated by native meadows and woodlands. Their Hawaiian-style bungalow has:
"...half a hectare of lodix lawn and Terrestrial flowers." (p. 30)
The description of Demeter is not as detailed as Poul Anderson's accounts of Hermes, Avalon, Aeneas, Dennitza etc in his Technic History but is good enough to remind us that we are reading an Anderson text. Broderson, under house arrest, will soon escape out into that Anderson-imagined universe.
Ad astra.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I agree with Broderson's desire to have that freedom of the universe! Maybe we will live to see some people seeking that kind of freedom for real in the Solar System.
Ad astra! Sean
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