"Holmgang."
We learn more about the Solar System:
everywhere is getting civilized except Venus;
Luna City is a "...roaring commercial metropolis..." (p. 21);
Achilles and Patroclus each have "...a permanent boomtown atmosphere..." (ibid.);
the Trojan asteroids trailing Jupiter are the jumping-off place for planets further from the Sun, the leading group for the inner System;
the Last Chance on Achilles is described as a rowdy bar;
prospectors and miners among the asteroids are the last practitioners of private enterprise.
Our knowledge of the Psychotechnic History expands with each successive story.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And that's exactly what any healthy society will NEED, a frontier, to be an outlet for the ambitious, restless, frustrated, or even losers trying one more time to finally "make it."
Ad astra! Sean
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