The Kirkasanter physicist, Hirn Oran's son, postulates a multidimensional framework to explain the coexistence of the small Cloud Universe and the larger darker universe but this is unnecessary. However, such a framework is necessary to explain Nicholas van Rijn's visit to the Old Phoenix - but neither Hirn nor Laure knows or even suspects anything about such an extra-cosmic visit. It is irrelevant to "Starfog."
I told someone recently that characters from different books can meet in the Old Phoenix so let's confirm that:
Holger Danske from Three Hearts And Three Lions and Valeria Matuchek from Operation Otherworld meet in the Old Phoenix in A Midsummer Tempest, Chapters xi-xii;
Sancho Panza from Don Quixote and Nicholas van Rijn from the Solar Commonwealth period of the Technic History meet in the Old Phoenix in "House Rule";
Sherlock Holmes and Huckleberry Finn, each with a recognizable companion, are present in the Old Phoenix in A Midsummer Tempest, Epilogue.
Poul Anderson delivers the goods.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I still rather hope Dominic Flandry was able to visit the Old Phoenix!
Ad astra! Sean
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