A Grain Of Sand On A Dusky Beach

"The lone star that had spawned Man's home was now only a bright dot among thousands of other dots; no longer Zarathustra's and Mithra's great object of worship, but only a grain of incandescent sand on a remote, permanently dusky beach.
"Dane was expatriate, as no man had ever been before - nor would he ever see that Sun again."
-James Blish, "Darkside Crossing" IN Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1970, pp. 5-25 AT p. 23. See here.

I quote this passage because it joins our collection of space/sea comparisons. See here. Poul Anderson and James Blish excelled at making this comparison.

Unfortunately, the work by Robert A. Heinlein in this issue of Galaxy is the concluding installment of I Will Fear No Evil.

Algis Budrys, discussing Poul Anderson, says that Anderson is "The single man best qualified to analyze the classics..." (p. 191) of science fiction and adds that Anderson does analyze past sf in order to write more. Recently, in 1970, Tau Zero and Tales Of The Flying Mountains had been published and Guardians Of Time, Brain Wave and After Doomsday had been republished.

More later.