Solman

What do you identify yourself as? American? British? Something else? Personally, I do not call myself British. I just say that I was born and live in the North West of England and have a British passport although my parentage could equally have entitled me to an Irish one.

Now imagine that some human beings have been living elsewhere in the galaxy for a very long time and that, when you travel there, you are identified as - a Solman! (Or Solwoman.) That is what happens in Poul Anderson's The Peregrine.

Peregrine Thorkild Sean is responsible for bringing both an Alorian and a Cordy onto the Peregrine. Is it just coincidence that both the Cordy Trevelyan and the Peregrine are investigating a possible threat to humanity and that the Peregrine is the Nomad ship that Trevelyan deliberately gets himself shanghaied onto? I am not going to find the answer at this time of night.

My night time prayer or invocation, if anyone wants to share it, is:

"From delusion, lead us to truth;
"From darkness, lead us to light." (three times)

I adapted it from an Upanishad. In the morning, I say:

"We meditate on the lovely light of the god, Savitri; may it stimulate our thoughts."