Friday, 16 November 2018

A Future Large Moon

Poul Anderson, The Fleet Of Stars, 3.

See A Freakishly Huge Moon.

Download Guthrie, en route from Amaterasu to Sol, enters the system of Alpha Centauri A after Phaeton has collided with Demeter.

The Demetrian Remnant
a globe
greater than Earth
still molten
glowing red
streaked black by smoke and slag
racked by outbursts
mountainous fire-geysers
crazy spin
chaotically orbiting rocks and shards
some crashing down
fountaining incandescence
surface waves
rings and a large moon forming

So Demeter will eventually cool back into a possibly habitable planet?

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And the planet once called Demeter might again be terraformable by humans? Maybe!

Sean