"Kenmuir took a chair. His body resisted its form-fitting embrace..." (21, p. 287)
See Future Furniture.
"There the solar disc glowed soft between zodiacal wings and stars were like fire-drops flung off the tumbling Milky Way." (22, p. 290)
Temerir uses his Lunar observatory to find his dead father's hypothetical planetoid: a very remote 2000-kilometer-diameter sphere of dense iron, a future source of wealth for Lunarians who will conceal it from the Federation which has recently, thanks to lobbying by Dagny and her allies, allowed Moondwellers to build interplanetary spaceships. The plot of the flashback chapters moves towards the scenario of the previous novel with the added secret of the planetoid.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
An astronomical observatory on the Far Side of the Moon should be able to do MUCH that observatories on Earth cannot (due to our atmosphere).
And I strongly sympathize with Temerir hiding the discovery of that plantetoid from the Federation!
Sean
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