Thursday, 19 March 2020

Cynthia And Woden

Cynthia
"Oh, treetop highways under the golden-red sun of Cynthia!"
-Poul Anderson, "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, 2009), pp. 175-197 AT p. 183.

"Oh, to be back on Ta-chih-chien-pi, Lifehome-under-Sky, again in a treetop house among forest perfumes!"
-Poul Anderson, "The Trouble Twisters" IN Anderson, David Falkayn: Star Trader (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 77-208 AT VI, p. 138.

"Ta-chih-chien-pi - 02 Eridani A II or Cynthia to humans - felt even more distant than it was, warm ruddy sunlight and rustling leaves around treetop homes lost in time as well as space."
-Poul Anderson, "Day of Burning" IN David Falkayn: Star Trader, pp. 209-272 AT pp. 224-225.

"'Light across a sea of leaves, but down below full of shapes and mysteries, a cry of color on wings and petals, a glen where a rill comes joyful -...'"
-Poul Anderson, Mirkheim IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2011), pp. 1-291 AT XXI, p. 289.

Woden
"Adzel's thoughts turned sentimentally back to Woden, the dear broad plains under the brilliant sun, where his hooves spurned kilometers..."
"The Trouble Twisters," V, p. 132.

"'That wild bright openness where the winds run loose, horizons endlessly before us but also flowers underfoot, a land that that is the living Nirvana -...'"
-Mirkheim, p. 289.

I will quote more about either planet if I find it.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Very nice, these descriptions of both Cynthia and Woden. And I like that bit about "warm, ruddy sunlight" glowing in the trees of Cynthia.

Ad astra! Sean