Wednesday 1 January 2020

Chereion, The Spiral Arm And A Mistaken Realization (A Bargain Post)

A Circus Of Hells.

Ydwyr confirms that the Chereionites were the Ancients and also uses a familiar phrase:

"'They had a civilization a million years ago that may have reached beyond this galaxy, where we have barely started to burrow about at the end of one spiral arm.'"
-CHAPTER FOURTEEN, p. 300.

This is the only hint of intergalactic civilization anywhere in the Technic History.

Later, Dominic Flandry has a moment of realization:

"The thought slashed through him. He sat straight with a muttered exclamation. Why didn't that occur to me before?"
-CHAPTER TWENTY, p. 364.

Usually this means that an Andersonian hero is about to solve a problem. Just this once, he creates a problem for himself instead. He has realized that Djana would make an excellent Intelligence agent and suggests this to her. Resenting his attempt to use her, Djana pronounces a curse which, because of her psychic potency, will afflict Flandry in the following volume and again in a later one.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Yes, this time we see an Andersonian hero FAILING to solve a problem. It would have been better for Flandry to simply part from Djana on reasonably friendly terms.

But Flandry's misunderstanding of Djana made for a more artistically satisfactory conclusion to A CIRCUS OF HELLS.

Ad astra and Happy New Year! Sean