"The sun was coming up over the Blue Mountain peak and dusty shafts of gold lanced into the plunging valley."
(This is followed by an account of men walking to their smallholdings and women carrying fruit or vegetables to the market.)
"In the darkness ahead [he] could just make out the rim of the world. Then came a layer of black haze above which the stars began, first sparsely and then merging into a dense bright carpet. The Milky Way soared overhead."
Poul Anderson regularly describes shafts of sunlight, road traffic, merging stars and the Milky Way - but this is not him. And this is the Milky Way as seen from Earth, not from space. There is another author whom Poul Anderson fans should read not only for his subject matter but also for his descriptive passages.
Since I will be away for most of the day tomorrow, let me end today with a question.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I've read the text you quoted but it rings no bells in my mind. But it's worthy of having been written by Poul Anderson. I've even cheated a bit and tried googling "The Sun was coming up over the Blue Mountain peak..." But I only got stuff about the Blue Mountains of Australia or Jamaica.
Sean
Google is your chum. Ian Fleming, of course.
Kaor, Ketlan!
Dang! And thanks! Not in the least what I had expected! I'm chagrined and crestfallen!
Sean
Ketlan gets 10 out of 10 and Sean gets 10 out of 10 for trying.
Kaor, Paul!
Ha, ha!!! That was amusing!
Sean
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