Someone about to travel to the Jovian system is asked to bring back some "'...green callistite.'" (p. 10) What is that?
Krypton: Kryptonite: green Kryptonite;
Callisto: callistite: green callistite?
Cadets in the Order of Planetary Engineers receive:
"...mind training under some of the most skilled psychotechnicians in the Solar System..." (p. 11)
How is this possible since the Psychotechnic Institute was outlawed and the Engineers will soon learn that psychotechnicians hiding in the Jovian system plot a violent return?
The outer Solar System is slightly closer to interstellar travel. Later Anderson characters will go further than the outer planets into the cometary halo.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I think the answer to your puzzlement is simple--the Order of Planetary Engineers took in some of they psychotechnicians after the Psychotechnic League was outlawed. This seems esp. likely if these pyschotechnicians confined their work to teaching members of the Order.
Sean
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