The Galactic Belt And The Moon

Genesis, PART ONE, III, 3.

Traveling across Mercury, Christian Brannock sees two things of interest:

"The galactic belt outshone [the dawn], an icebright river from worldedge to worldedge. Everywhere else the stars themselves gleamed and glittered, their thousands overwhelming the crystalline blackness behind." (p. 20)

This is yet another description of the Milky Way.

Secondly:

"Low over a northwesterly ridge stood a blue diamond. He could just espy a mote beside it, ashen-gold. Earth, he knew, and Earth's moon. Home." (ibid.)

We have just quoted essentially the same description of Earth and Moon as seen from near Mercury in "Vulcan's Forge."

Blog exercise: reread and compare "Vulcan's Forge" and Genesis, PART ONE, III. (There are other similarities.) I need an apprentice.