Susaians On Freydis

For Love And Glory, XXXIV.

Imagine working with beings that can sense emotions.

"Excitement often spread with explosive speed through beings so directly perceptive of emotions." (p. 179)

That is logical. Some beings detect an emotion and others detect their detection of it.

"She begrudged the admission and knew that Coppergold felt that she did." (ibid.)

Lissa cannot conceal her inner begrudgment from a Susaian. But Susaians might be more sympathetic than human beings? (p. 180)

A group of them have settled on Freydis which is:

"Not the global hell of jungle and swamp that most people imagined; no, as diverse as Asborg. But dear Asborg was well-nigh another Earth, renewed and again virginal. Humans soon made it theirs, and in its turn it claimed them for itself." (ibid.)

Earth and Venus are Sol III and II. Asborg and Freydis are Sunniva III and II. A "...global hell of jungle and swamp..." was one idea of what Venus might be like. Anderson's Sunnivan System is like a retro-Solar System.

There is a Venusburg on Venus in Robert Heinlein's Future History and Torben Hebo runs Venusberg Enterprises on Freydis.