"At last, some time before I stopped, the sun, red and very large, halted motionless upon the horizon, a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction."
-HG Wells, The Time Machine (London, 1973), 14, p. 91.
Flandry on Chereion:
"In cloudless violet, the sun stood at afternoon, bigger to see than Sol over Terra, duller and redder than the sun over Diomedes; squinting, he could look straight into it for seconds without being blinded, and through his lashes find monstrous dark spots and vortices. It would not set for many an hour, the old planet turned so wearily."
-A Knight Of Ghosts And Shadows, XX, pp. 592-593.
Chereion's sun sounds unpleasant to look at!
Wellsian connections are always good.
4 comments:
It's an interesting comparison -- though with much better physics!
Kaor, Paul!
Mr. Stirling beat me to making a similar comment! (Smiles) I was going to say Poul Anderson's knowledge of physics and astronomy was more advanced than that of Wells.
ONE more month and I should be able to finally get a copy of Stirling's SHADOWS OF ANNIHILATION, which I'm really looking forward to reading!
Still reading some of the stories in NESFA Press' THE DOOR TO ANYWHERE. Next I might reread A CIRCUS OF HELLS. Then I'm thinking of rereading Julian May's JACK THE BODILESS.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean: not only that Poul wrote later; he had a degree in physics and really understood it.
Hope you enjoy SHADOWS. I'm a little more than halfway through #4.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Poul Anderson certainly not only understood physics, he had a sound grasp of many other sciences!
I'm 99 percent sure I will enjoy reading SHADOWS!!! And the fourth BLACK CHAMBER book is another one to look forward to!
And I do plan to reread this year the fourth of your THE GENERAL books, co-authored with Dave Drake.
Ad astra! Sean
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