Sunrise And Waking

The sun rises:

"He awoke at 6.00 with the sun shining through a gap in the curtains right in his face."

-Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (London, 2008), CHAPTER 23, p. 377.

 

Maia, sun of Hermes, rises:

 

"A beam went past an upper balcony on the New Keep, through the French doors beyond, and across the bed of Sandra Tamarin-Asmundsen.

"She woke from dreams."

-Poul Anderson, Mirkheim IN Anderson, Rise Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2011), pp. 1-291 AT II, p. 47.

 

I quote these two passages because rereading the first reminded me of the second. However, they are more of a contrast than a comparison. Larsson's character, Mikael Blomkvist, is in a guest house on the fictional island of Hedeby off the Norrland coast of Sweden whereas Lady Sandra is in her Grand Duchess's residence on the fictional extra-solar planet, Hermes. Blomkvist wakes with Lizbeth Salander's arm flung across him whereas Sandra addresses "'Pete, darling,'" (ibid.) then remembers that she is alone.

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is Volume I of the Millennium Trilogy whereas Mirkheim is the concluding novel of the Polesotechnic League period of the Technic History. Yet again, I urge you all to read or reread both.