Friday 7 September 2018

Los Angeles

Poul Anderson, The Byworlder, X.

Ships, tugs, barges, fishing boats, yachts, police and watercleaner craft nearly covering the glistering blue of San Pedro Bay;

helicopters filling the sky;

white contrails;

drifting thunder;

pastel buildings;

green parks;

skyscrapers rising like spires;

soaring railway arcs;

crystalline air;

the megalopolis stretching beyond the horizon;

the deep continuous querning sound of men and machines;

heat;

sailors bustling on the flagship.

Three senses and yet another concretely realized future location.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

This sounds a lot like, say, the Chicago Integrate we see in the era of the Polesotechnic League in the Technic stories.

Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,
A one-off novel can present just as concrete a future setting as a future history series.
Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

I agree.

Sean