Monday, 11 January 2021

An Air Car Journey On Suleiman

"Esau."

Vegetation is black with occasional red, brown or blue.
Ammonia cataracts down a hill.
Ice mountains flash blindingly.
Clouds are red with organic compounds.
Osman sets after the twelve hour day.
Lightning scribbles on the dark wall of a storm.
Dalmady steers his lurching car through hooting gusts and air pockets.
 
Poul Anderson describes several beautiful terrestroid planets colonized by human beings but also hellholes like Mirkheim, Lucifer and Suleiman where they work.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

But Suleiman is not a hellhole for the intelligent race which had evolved on that planet. To them, it's just RIGHT!

Again, yet another intriguing world and intelligent race we see only once in the Technic history. Pity!

Ad astra! Sean