Sunday, 11 May 2025

Final Adventure

Mirkheim, XIV.

Adzel to Chee Lan:

"'Let us savor this final adventure of ours for what it is.'" (p. 204)

We have seen only five of this team's many adventures:

Ikrananka
Merseia
Tametha
Mirkheim
Babur

Hermes will be their last and we know that as we read the novel. Poul Anderson writes good endings and his concluding chapter is full of them. That chapter ends with a red sunrise: sunset colour in a new beginning.
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3 comments:

  1. Sean M. Brooks12 May 2025 at 04:16

    Kaor, Paul!

    Or Anderson was hinting that a "red sunrise" was ominous, a foreshadowing of the continued decay of the League and the anarchy of the approaching Time of Troubles a century later.

    Hope this uploads.

    Ad astra! Sean

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  2. paulshackley2017@gmail.com12 May 2025 at 08:39

    That is more likely.

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  3. S.M. Stirling18 May 2025 at 01:55

    I'm reminded of a saying: "And adventure is someone else in deep *hit, far away."

    I've had people try to kill me, and it didn't feel very adventurous. Alarming (in retrospect), and disagreeable, rather.

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