Friday 16 November 2018

Chapters And Their Settings

Poul Anderson's The Fleet Of Stars is divided into Chapters 1-32:

1 is set on Amaterasu, a planet of Beta Hydri;

32, comprising only the sentence, "FENN WOKE." (p. 403), must also be set there;

3 is set in the system of Alpha Centauri A where download Guthrie sees the remnant of Demeter and revisits Zamok Sabyel';

the remaining chapters are set in various parts of the Solar System -

Proserpina
Luna
the Habitat
Mars
interplanetary space
Earth? (I have to reread)

Thus, we are shown tantalizingly little of Amaterasu and nothing of the two other extra-solar colonies.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

There was only so MUCH even a prolific a writer as was Poul Anderson could have told us! And loose ends and half glimpses gives readers food for thought and debate.

Sean