stormclouds;
explosions of lightning;
wild winds;
volcanoes;
avalanches;
floods;
waves like mountains torn to shreds;
air almost solid with rain, hail and stones;
boiled-off vapors turbulently, massively recondensing;
a storm that drives half an ocean across a continent;
winds of two or three hundred kph forming a hurricane as a back eddy or dead zone.
The hurricane catches Gahood's nineteen destroyers:
"...as a November gale catches dead leaves in the northlands of Earth." (p. 513)
The destroyers are variously:
bounced around and cast aside;
peeled open;
broken apart by solid chunks;
drowned in spume-filled air;
tossed against mountains.
Their pieces are strewn, buried, reduced to dust and atoms or locked into new rock strata and never found. The revenge of nature against technology?
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteI think I will reread SATAN'S WORLD after I'm done with Stirling's ON THE OCEANS OF ETERNITY. The Anderson books seems to be PERFECT science fiction: dealing with scientifically plausible phenomena, other worlds, other races, adventure, issues of life and death, serious ideas about society and politics, etc.
Sean