"A condor wheeled huge, on watch for any death." (p. 276)
There have been a lot of hovering predators and scavengers:
Hawks (scroll down)
Fangryfs (scroll down)
Spearfowl
Swordbeaks (scroll down)
Crows
A Cainite Bird Of Prey
Vultures
An Eagle
A Vulch on Aeneas
A Dactosauroid on Bellevue
Falcons
- and maybe more that I can't remember.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Yes, Anderson was fond of using flying predators either as symbols of beauty or as parts of pathetic fallacies. It's one of those things, such as favorite words like "trod" that regular readers notice in his works.
I think Stirling also picked up this trope about flying predators in his own stories.
Ad astra! Sean
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