Saturday, 24 October 2020

Lohannaso And The Milky Way

In Poul Anderson's Technic History, certain families are associated with certain planets:

Falkayn, Tamarin and Runeberg with Hermes;
 
Falkayn and Holm with Avalon;
 
Kittredge with Vixen;
 
McCormac and Frederiksen with Aeneas.
 
I mean by this that each of these surnames occurs more than once in the Technic History.
 
Similarly, there is a surname that recurs several times in connection with Anderson's Maurai Federation:
 
"...Captain Ruori Rangi Lohannaso..."
 
"The Lohannaso Shippers' Association..."
-Poul Anderson, "Progress" IN Anderson, Maurai And Kith (New York, 1982), pp. 73-137 AT p. 75.
 
"Captain Rewi Lohannaso..."
-There will Be Time, XI, p. 117.
 
"Terai Lohannaso..."
-Poul Anderson, Orion Shall Rise (London, 1988), CHAPTER TWO, p. 24.

As far as I can see without yet having reread every word of the third Maurai story, it does not give us a Lohannaso but does present another old friend:

"The night was as clear as I've ever seen, fantastic with stars, more stars than there was crystal blackness in between them, and the Milky Way a torrent."
-Poul Anderson, "Windmill" IN Maurai And Kith, pp. 139-168 AT p. 144.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And I've seen similarly beautifully starry nights in the night skies of Maui.

Ad astra! Sean