Tuesday, 19 September 2017

The Peregrine/Star Ways Revisited

"The planet grows as the ships strain closer; it becomes a sapphire shield banded with clouds, blurred with rain and mountain mists."
-Poul Anderson, The Peregrine (New York, 1979), Chapter I, p. 1.

This description of Rendezvous reminds us of a description of Earth quoted here.

"'In the name of Cosmos, rendezvous,' he began formally." (Chapter II, p. 7)

Again, "Cosmos." See here and here. I do not think that we are told any details of the Cosmic religion but this is something to look out for while rereading Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History.
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1 comment:

  1. Sean M. Brooks19 September 2017 at 17:19

    Kaor, Paul!

    The Cosmenosis we see in THE DAY OF THEIR RETURN is more developed than the religion of Cosmos in the later Psychotechnic stories. What I concluded, guided by TDOTR, is that "Cosmosism" was a kind of pantheism, but I'm not even sure of that.

    Sean

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