"There was no horizon. The flying mountain on which he stood was too small. At his back rose a cliff of jagged rock, losing its own blackness in the loom of shadows; its teeth ate raggedly across the Milky Way."
-Poul Anderson, "Holmgang" IN Anderson, The Complete Psychotechnic League (Riverdale, NY, 2018), pp. 19-50 AT p. 19.
There are three significant references here:
Tales Of The Flying Mountains is yet another future history series by Poul Anderson;
this passage presents yet another object seen against the Milky Way (see the link);
Year 2018! was the title of a paperback edition of James Blish's Cities In Flight, Volume I, They Shall Have Stars.
Some associations are clearly intended whereas others are accidental.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I like those stories Anderson wrote about the "flying mountains"! More than I do, frankly, the Psychotechnic tales.
Ad astra! Sean
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