"'Play something appropriate, Sam.'"
-Chapter II, p. 177.
This is an obvious cinematic reference, as is confirmed in the combox to Contributions And Interactions.
Markham casually kills some human independent operators who are no longer useful to him and tries to hijack the UN military mission to Wunderland. With allies like that, who needs enemies?
The conscious computer informs Jonah that, for a distance of twenty-three point six light years ahead of the Catskinner, there is nothing but:
hard vacuum
micrometeorites
interstellar dust
possible spacecraft
bodies undetectable because either too small or non-radiating
superstrings
shadowmatter (p. 189)
He does not mention virtual, mutually annihilating, matter-antimatter particles. I do not know when they were first hypothesized and/or detected.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
With traitors like Markham,who needs honest and open enemies???
And the more we learn about the universe, the weirder it looks!
Ad astra! Sean
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