Sunday 7 June 2020

100 Pages

Poul Anderson's Operation Luna moves at a leisurely pace and celebrates American family life. We have seen Steve and Virginia Matuchek from their first meeting in the previous volume to their bringing up of three children and, in A Midsummer Tempest, we will see their eldest, Valeria, as an adult. To complete the picture, "Loser's Night" includes Valeria Matuchek in a list of women with spectacular lives. See Lives.

I have reread to the end of Chapter 37 on p. 338. There remain twelve more chapters in exactly one hundred pages. Now I need to check on our family activities in Lancaster this Sunday morning and afternoon. Normal service will be resumed after a short break.

3 comments:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

The trouble with that perhaps too easy reference to Valeria Matuchek in "Losers' Night" is that we are not told of or shown any of those "spectacular" things done by her.

Ad astra! Sean

paulshackley2017@gmail.com said...

Sean,

Except going to the Moon and finding her way to the Old Phoenix?

Paul.

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Oops! I forgot about those things! I was wondering more of WHAT Valeria had done after gaining her Magistra degree.

Ad astra! Sean