Interplanetary transportation companies include Triplanetary and Fireball. Triplanetary is an EE Smith title and "Fireball" is a company in another Poul Anderson future history. See the link.
The Sirius Transportation Company comprises:
a spaceship called the Sirius;
crew and part owners, Bo Jonsson and Johnny Malone;
in Luna City, warehouse, berth and three other part owners;
a small "margin of profit," (p. 23) recalling another Anderson title.
An interesting detail: although asteroidal alcohol is expensive, it is also more effective in low gravity. (I suppose maybe it would be.) Gravity is low in the Last Chance because this bar does not centrifuge like some "tommicker" places downtown. (I googled "tommicker" but did not find anything.)
A wealth of interesting details about future life if we pause to appreciate them. Let me publish this post while I can.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
It makes me wonder if either Anderson remembered and reused the "Fireball" we see in THE HARVEST OF STARS books or had forgotten and coincidentally thought of that name for the later stories.
I assume "tommicker" was meant by Anderson to be thought of by his readers as a futuristic slang word. I think we are supposed to think a "tommicker" bar is a more expensive business using centrifuges to simulate a higher gravity.
Ad astra! Sean
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