Thursday, 26 August 2021

Changes In Space

On the Moon:

"In dawnwatch he boarded the monorail to Tychopolis. The system was newly completed..."

"On my second trip to Luna City I went over to Richardson Observatory... We went out the north tunnel, which was then being bored..."
-Robert Heinlein, "Gentlemen, Be Seated" IN Heinlein, The Green Hills Of Earth (London, 1967), pp. 50-60 AT p. 50.

In space:

"...even today Supra-New York is still rather primitive, hardly more than a fuelling point and restaurant waiting-room. It has only been the past five years that it has even been equipped to offer the comfort of one-gravity centrifuge service to passengers with queasy stomachs."
-Robert Heinlein, "Space Jockey" IN The Green Hills Of Earth, pp. 19-36 AT p. 21.

Rhysling confronts a young Captain:

"The two men did not touch in background nor spirit; space was changing."
-Robert Heinlein, "The Green Hills of Earth" IN The Green Hills Of Earth, pp. 131-141 AT p. 138.

Although Heinlein goes into more detail, both the Future History and the Harvest Of Stars future history show us changes in daily life in the future on the Moon and in space.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Again, I'm reminded of how shamefully I've been neglecting Heinlein's better, earlier stories. I've been reading mostly Anderson, Stirling, Pournelle, and Fleming this summer. Plus, I've recently started rereading LIBERAL FASCISM, by Jonah Goldberg.

Ad astra! Sean