"...crowding constellations and the icy Via Lactea." (p. 307)
Yet another description of you know what. See The Milky Way Thread.
The women stand by the megaliths. Meanwhile, in other reading, John Constantine is driven past Stonehenge. Iern's foster-mother, Rosenn, reflects that:
"...the planet spun toward Northern winter and soon Orion would rise." (p. 308)
This passage parallels an earlier passage set in North America. See Wind And Waves. However, ironically, Rosenn knows Orion only as a constellation, not as a top secret Northwestern project. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN will at last disclose the nature of that project.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
It's possible this is the only place in Anderson's stories where the Milky Way is referred to as the Via Lactea. I thin Rosenn was the widow of Iern's father?
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
She was.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
I thought so, but I was not sure I was remembering rightly.
Ad astra! Sean
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