Marduk: the natives are four-armed like ERB's green Martians and Poul Anderson's Ferrans and fight with swords;
Osiris is a gas giant with moons;
Rama: there are horned animals to hunt;
Dagon: there are statuettes of gods.
(All named after Terrestrial gods.)
Kenri's father, Wolden:
has mementos from all these planets;
has seen fifteen hundred years of Terrestrial history;
says that Fleetwing might escape from the oppressive Dominancy simply by taking a trip of a thousand years!
Further, such a long trip would enter new regions of space. We want to read a Wolden pov novel.
Leaving his parents, Kenri:
"...went out into the darkness of Earth." (p. 181)
- a darkness both literal and metaphorical.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I had been wondering how many planets had been colonized by humans in STARFARERS before the drive to use StL means of interstellar travel flagged. At least, unlike the Tahirians and those Merseian lookalikes, humans did not withdraw from those planets!
Ad astra! Sean
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