pp. 368-369, Hloch's introduction which would have fitted on a single page;
pp. 370-375, a trader team story;
pp. 375-376, three paragraphs summarizing a decade of van Rijn's later life;
pp. 376-408, Coya Conyon's point of view of her and van Rijn's journey to Mirkheim in an Ythrian spaceship.
pp. 375-376 are a good summary. We understand the references to Satan etc if we have read the Technic History in chronological order to this point. We appreciate that van Rijn is having a more leisurely time but nevertheless remains far from inactive. Coya can tell that they are flying, battle-ready, into unexplored space.
And that is a good place to stop for the night.
4 comments:
Paul:
I'm amused as well as exasperated by how the back-cover blurb in your illustration spells "Falkayn" with a final "e."
David,
There are other errors.
Paul.
Paul:
There always are, but that one sort of jumped out and waved little semaphore flags to me.
Kaor, DAVID!
I never thought before to notice how someone blundered and misspelled Falkayn's name. At least partly, perhaps, I have a hardback, rather than paperback copy of THE EARTH BOOK.
And, yes, that blurb contains other errors!
Ad astra! Sean
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