-SM Stirling, Shadows Of Falling Night (New York, 2014), CHAPTER NINETEEN, p. 365.
In Tolkien, some ships take the straight path that was there before the world became round. In Poul Anderson's "Star Of The Sea," waves lay a molten road toward Edh from the low sun. Also:
"Far and far away, a sail passed by. It could have been driving the ship of Odysseus."
-Poul Anderson, "Ivory, And Apes, And Peacocks" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 229-331 AT p. 326.
"...the sea lapped calm where Odysseus would sail."
-Poul Anderson, "Gibraltar Falls" IN Time Patrol, pp. 113-128 AT p. 117.
Anderson makes two references to Odysseus and Stirling makes one to the Argonauts. Classical references enrich modern texts.
(I have heard Earth described as well off the main shipping lines of the galaxy.)
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Kaor, Paul!
I was actually thinking of Tolkien's "straight path"! And Anderson not only used the Greco/Roman classics as a source for allusions, I particularly recall him alluding from Lewis Carroll's ALICE books as a source of classical references in the future (such as mention of the Red King in A CIRCUS OF HELLS). And the same book has Leon Ammon's office ominously numbered as "666," which any reader of the Bible should recall.
Sean
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