"The Milky Way was a frozen cascade from horizon to horizon."
-Poul Anderson, The Day Of Their Return IN Anderson, Captain Flandry:Defender Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 74-238 AT 4, p. 102.
Another Virgilian planet, Anchises, is yellow. (In mythology, Anchises is Aeneas' father.) Alpha and Beta Crucis and the moons cast shadows.
That is a considerable amount of information especially if you follow the links for the mythological explanations of the names of the heavenly bodies.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And the image of the aged Anchises being carried by his son Aeneas from the flaming ruins of a falling Troy has stuck in my mind!
Sean
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