The Virgo cluster comes on-stage at the end of this chapter and has previously appeared twice on the blog:
Tau Zero, Chapters 3-10
The Avatar VII: the jumps 5-11
The Leonora Christine will fly to the Virgo cluster. The 10th T machine jump has transported the Chinook to a future cosmic period when the Virgo cluster has receded beyond visibility. Until I searched the blog for "Virgo cluster," I had not realized that Anderson's intergalactic sf makes these two very different references to that particular cluster. What other information is buried in the blog? Some scholarly excavation might be feasible.
Earlier posts have summarized the plot of Tau Zero so I need not repeat that information here but will continue to reread the novel in search of other interesting details.
2 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
And I simply CAN'T believe that amidst all these millions and billions of galaxies that our Earth is the only planet with intelligent life!
Sean
Sean, how sure are you that Earth has intelligent life?
-kh
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