Friday, 25 May 2018

Gandarian Street And The Milky Way

Bactra has a Gandarian Street. I take "Gandarian" to be the adjective derived from the noun, "Gandhara," and, on the attached map of Gandhara, we find Peshawar, of interest to readers of SM Stirling's The Peshawar Lancers.

We often find the Milky Way (see also Across The Milky Way) in Poul Anderson's Technic History so we appreciate its appearance in his Time Patrol series:

"Coolness descended from stars and Milky Way."
-Poul Anderson, The Shield Of Time (New York, 1991), 209 B.C., p. 81.

And that reference to stars is my cue to call it a night.

2 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And I've read Stirling's THE PESHAWAR LANCERS no less than three times! And I will quite likely read it again, which shows how highly i regard that book.

Sean

S.M. Stirling said...

Note: city-dwellers really don't appreciate how -bright- the night sky can be in a place with no light pollution, particularly in a dry climate.