"Abruptly the hull shuddered and bucked." (p. 22)
I quoted this sentence as an example of the unexpected here.
The paragraph ends:
"Like a dead leaf on a winter wind, Valkyrie tumbled through space, borne wherever the cosmos cast her." (ibid.)
I have searched the blog for "dead leaves" and found many posts (see here) but not as yet the one that I was looking for, where spacecraft are compared to dead leaves. I think that it was in The Peregrine.
I have found the passage (see Leaf And Stars) and it is not about spaceships but about someone inside one.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And Flandry's remarks in WE CLAIM THESE STARS about the Terran nobles shivering as they contemplated the approaching fall of the Empire before they went back to playing with a few bright dead leaves is one of my favorite examples of Anderson using the "dead leaves" metaphor.
Sean
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