"Elsewhere glittered the remoter stars, multitudinous and many-colored in their high night. Tom's gaze circled among them. Yes, yonder was Capella. Old Earth lay on the far side, a couple of hundred light-years from here."
-"A Tragedy of Errors," pp. 455-540 AT p. 460.
"Sol, of course, was hidden from telescopes as well as from eyes, an insignificant yellow dwarf two hundred parsecs beyond that veil, which its light would never pierce. I wonder what's happening there, thought Tolteca. It's long since we had any word from Old Earth."
-The Night Face, I, p. 553.
"Clover was another of those life forms that man had brought with him from Old Earth, to more planets than anyone now remembered before the Long Night fell."
-"The Sharing of Flesh," pp. 661-708 AT pp. 665-666.
"But Laure's gaze strayed beyond, toward the deeps and then, as if in search of comfort, the other way, toward Old Earth. There was no comfort, though. They still named her Home, but she lay in the spiral arm behind this one, and Laure had never seen her. He had never met anyone who had. None of his ancestors had, for longer than their family chronicles ran. Home was a half-remembered myth; reality was here, these stars on the fringes of this civilization."
-"Starfog," pp. 709-794 AT p. 713.
See also:
Distant Earth
The Quiet Earth
Earth Abides
Between The Dark Ages
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
I think it would be just as natural for peoples in the post-Imperial eras also sometimes referring to Earth as Old Terra. And we have to expect the different languages which developed during the Long Night and afterwards to say "Earth" in different ways.
And what has happened to Old Earth in the thousands of years leading up to Daven Laure's time?
Ad astra! Sean
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