The agenda remains to continue rereading Poul Anderson's The Avatar, then maybe The Winter Of The World. Recently we have had a combox revelation that SM Stirling's Black Chamber, Volume II, Theater Of Spies, will be published in January.
Dialogue in The Avatar, XXVIII, discloses that Jovoid planets radiate more than they receive. Thus, as with geothermal energy, the sun is not the only energy source. Which outer moon has heat at the center and ice on the surface, therefore possibly liquid water containing life between?
Chinook will leave Danu but will visit even stranger inhabited planets. Onward.
4 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
I'll be very interested in any comments you care to make about THE WINTER OF THE WORLD, because I have some fairly strong views about the characters in that book.
And I'm very eager to read Stirling's THEATER OF SPIES! And do the Germans now know Luz O'Malloy was not a Mexican working against the US but a Black Chamber agent? While she was in Saxony, in the Reich, I would have had German Intelligence photograph her for their meticulously kept up records. And once it was discovered she was a US agent, these pictures would be distributed to all German intelligence agents to study, with instructions that she be seized and sent to Germany for interrogation if possible, or killed. Because I don't think agents like Luz (or Dominic Flandry) could long remain unknown to their enemies.
Sean
"Which outer moon has heat at the center and ice on the surface, therefore possibly liquid water containing life between?"
For more and more of the icy bodies in the outer solar system, evidence of liquid water under the ice is being found. I think Europa was the first for that to be true.
and then I look at Astronomy Picture of the Day, and find that today's picture is of Europa
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240329.html
Kaor, Jim!
Very interesting and very cool! I've read about places like Europa at the CENTAURI DREAMS website.
Ad astra! Sean
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