"Where the mighty Sagittarius flows into the Gulf of Centaurs..." (p. 55)
Now ten times.
Centauri, human town and spaceport, is like a gateway to the Empire. Arinnian must be Christopher Holm while there and the West Coronan home guard and the Seamen's Brotherhood confer there. Afterwards, Arinnian and Hrill eat in the Phoenix House (not to be confused with the Old Phoenix) and drink in the Nest. (Unfortunately, for blog searching purposes, there are two "Nests" in Anderson's multiverse.) I hope to find previously unnoticed details but will shortly depart to the gym with the first Inspector Morse novel to read in the cafe.
Tomorrow evening, a proposed family meal has had to be postponed because it would have clashed with Holocaust Memorial at the Cenotaph. We still live real history and read future history.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I can think of at least three of the Technic stories with striking opening paragraphs: ENISIGN FLANDRY, A CIRCUS OF HELLS, and HUNTERS OF THE SKY CAVE. And the opening paragraph of THE BROKEN SWORD is a good example of Anderson using the Scandinavian saga style.
I've commented before how striking opening paragraphs had a practical function, being designed to attract the attention of new readers. The idea being that such readers would hopefully become so interested that they would want to go on to read the whole story and buy the book.
Ad astra! Sean
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