From the bridge of Muddlin' Through, Falkayn sees:
"...the Milky Way an argent cataract..."
-Poul Anderson, Mirkheim IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2011), pp. 1-291 AT Chapter IV, p. 78.
From another spaceship, Coya had seen:
"...argent torrent of Milky Way..."
-Poul Anderson, "Lodestar" IN Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 631-680 AT p. 642.
Here is a new Andersonian exercise: find descriptions of the Milky Way. There are bound to be many. In fact, I have just found fifteen more. Van Rijn sees that:
"The Milky Way was a quicksilver river..."
-Mirkheim, Chapter III, p. 65.
Before that, Falkayn and Coya together saw:
"...the ghost-road of the Milky Way..."
-Mirkheim, Chapter I, 33.
Van Rijn sees:
"...the spilling silver of the Milky Way..." (See "A Glory Of Suns," here.)
Earlier explorers had seen that:
"The Milky Way was a torrent of silver." (See "The View From Space," here.)
In a novel outside the Technic History:
"...the glittering belt of the Milky Way." (See "The War Of Two Worlds II," here.)
In another such novel:
"...the Milky Way cleaving [the dark] with frost..."
-Poul Anderson, Genesis (New York, 2001), Part One, Chapter 1, p. 3.
In The Peregrine (part of the Psychotechnic History), the Milky Way is described as:
"...the ghostly bridge of stars." (See "Navigating," here.)
In Tales Of The Flying Mountains:
"...the shining belt of the Milky Way." (See "Stark Splendor And Drifting Clouds," here.)
-and:
"...the Milky Way cataracted around the sky..."
-Poul Anderson, "Sunjammer" IN Anderson, Tales Of The Flying Mountains (New York, 1984), pp. 207-248 AT p. 207.
In The Boat Of A Million Years, the Milky Way is:
"...like a river of frost and light." (See "Pytheas," here.)
On Ishtar, the Milky Way is called the Ghost Bridge. (See "Fire Time, Chapters I and II," here.)
During the Man-Kzin Wars:
"...the Milky Way torrented..." (See "Stars thronged...," here.)
In "SOS," a character sees:
"...the Milky Way's cataract..."
-Poul Anderson, "SOS" IN Anderson, Dialogue With Darkness (New York, 1985), pp. 193-221 AT p. 197.
In another period of the Technic History:
"...the argent torrent of the Milky Way..."
-Poul Anderson, The People Of The Wind IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2011), pp. 437-662 AT Chapter IV, p. 479.
In Tau Zero:
"...the Milky Way belted heaven with ice and silver..."
-Poul Anderson, Tau Zero (London, 1973), Chapter 2, p. 18.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
A very nice list! Think I'll print out this blog piece of yours.
Sean
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