"He lay back still while a bath of content flowed over him like a tide at flood, and soaked to his very marrow."
-Robert Heinlein, "Requiem" IN Heinlein, The Man Who Sold The Moon (London, 1963), pp. 222-238 AT p. 238.
"They found Dagny Beynac on the north rim trail. She had left her car at the shelter and gone afoot, alone, in an hour when no one else was about."
-The Stars Are Also Fire, 38.
That is all for this post, folks, but it is plenty. Both the Man Who Sold the Moon and the Mother of the Moon die on the Moon. Poul Anderson's Harvest Of Stars future history is not as pivotal an sf work as Heinlein's Future History. In fact, it is overshadowed by Anderson's own Technic History and Time Patrol series. Nevertheless, Harvest Of Stars and its sequels are in the Heinlein tradition. Rhysling wrote the song, "The Green Hills of Earth," in the story, "The Green Hills of Earth," in the collection, The Green Hills Of Earth, which is Volume II of the Future History. Verdea wrote a poem including the line, "For the stars are also fire." in The Stars Are Also Fire (34, p. 459) which is Volume II of the Harvest Of Stars future history.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And I think Elon Musk hopes to someday die on Mars, after successfully founding a colony there. That would make him a worthy real world analog to D.D. Harriman and Dagny Beynac!
While I agree THE HARVEST OF STARS books tend to be overshadowed by Anderson's Technic and Time Patrol stories, the former are worthy successors to the latter series.
Ad astra! Sean
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