Wednesday 3 October 2018

Murals Of Triumphs

Poul Anderson, The Stars Are Also Fire, 7.

Murals in the Lunar terminal:

Armstrong's landing;

the Great Return;

Anson Guthrie founding the base that will become Tychopolis;

Dagny Beynac in charge of the construction of the 100th Crisswell energy collector.

Because Lunarians do not flaunt public achievements, there are no murals from the Selenarchy period - that might have shown:

Martian colonization;
interstellar missions;
Guthrie's and Rinndalir's exodus to Alpha Centauri.

This triumphal list summarizes future history, including important names:

Armstrong
Crisswell
Guthrie (twice)
Beynac
Rinndalir

- and I have learned by writing this post.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Plainly, what was meant by the "Great Return" were human beings returning to the Moon, this time to STAY! Which I ardently hope soon happens in reality!

Sean