Unpolluted Planets II

(Alpha Centauri A and B.)

Poul Anderson, "Pele" IN Larry Niven (Ed.), Man-Kzin Wars IX (Riverdale, NY, 2002), pp. 1-95.

See Unpolluted Planets.

The same sentiment is re-expressed when, from the main office of Saxtorph and Nordbo in Munchen, Robert Saxtorph sees:

green countryside;
scattered houses;
groves;
distant blue hills;
blue sky;
morning light from the sun, Alpha Centauri A;
white clouds;
a flock of rosewings -

- and thinks:

"Yes, Wunderland's still a lovely world, as alive as Earth used to be before people screwed her up." (2, p. 12)

That is my last gasp for tonight or rather this early morning.