When Yvonne meets Almeida, the pov shifts from her to him. We read how he perceives her.
Next, Yvonne sees Earth from space:
day is "...a hundred rich shades of blue..." (p. 20);
above the blue are the swirling and "...dazzling pure whitenesses..." (ibid.) of weather;
land is unidentifiable, blurred and greenish brown;
on the black nightside are faint shimmers and bright sparks, the latter either storms or cities;
stars are sharp and unwinking;
the orbiting alien craft, a Bussard ramjet, is two separate shining coppery spheres, one larger and enclosed with turrets, needles, discs, frames, domes, webs and other objects, the other skeletal and open - but is also an interplay of forcefields.
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Kaor, Paul!
I would have thought the continental outlines would be recognizable, on Earth's dayside.
And the Sigman came to Earth using a Bussard ramjet? He came using a relativistic, STL, spaceship? Then my memory erred saying the alien had a FTL space ship.
Sean
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