"When their vessel swung around the night side with interior lights dimmed, stars crowded darkness, the galactic belt became a river of silver, nebulae glimmered afar, majesty and mystery that went on forever." (p. 290)
"...a river of silver..." is yet another:
description of the Milky Way;
universe as water metaphor. (See also here.)
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Paul:
I think I may have mentioned this here before, but Alan Dean Foster did "novelizations" of the Star Trek animated series in much the way James Blish did for the Original Series. The first words of one such story were, "Veil of stars. Veil of crystal." At the end of that story, an alien moves away toward deeper space, and when he/she/it is too distant from Enterprise to be seen any longer (without increasing magnification), the last line is, "Only infinity and a few stars remained."
David,
A good writer can do something even with a STAR TREK script.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul and DAVID!
And we see Poul Anderson doing something like that with his contributions to both Larry Niven's Known Space series and Jerry Pournelle's Co-Dominium timeline.
Sean
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