-Ensign Flandry, CHAPTER NINE, p. 85.
"Stars crowded the viewscreens, unmercifully brilliant against infinite night."
-CHAPTER FOURTEEN, p. 145.
"...the night and chaos of time."
-see here. (Scroll down.)
"...an unbounded darkness..."
-see here.
Night falls on the Moon as Bedford returns to Earth and in the far future as the Time Traveler returns to the nineteenth century.
These six references represent:
two passages from Poul Anderson's Technic History;
two passages from Anderson's time travel fiction;
two novels by Wells, about space travel and time travel, respectively.
It is an sf perspective that we are surrounded by absolute and infinite night.
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.-copied from here.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And that would be literally true, were off Earth and in space, infinite night interspersed with the remote stars. Unless were in a cluster or an inner region of the galaxy where the stars were much closer to each other.
Ad astra! Sean
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