See A Raven And Space.
Eiko rests on a hill with a view. A raven, sheening black as a midnight sea, settles on a branch of a cypress tree. A low voice calls Eiko by name. Download Kyra, integrated with the planetary ecology, sees Eiko through the eyes of a robug hidden in the shrubbery or maybe through the eyes of the raven. She hears with electronic ears or maybe through the wings of some hovering bees. She speaks through a robug or some other small device. During a pause in the conversation, the breeze blows stronger. Kyra asks Eiko to download and join her. The planetary goddess grows.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Poul Anderson is to commended for his imagination! The difficulty I had with such concepts as these was why so much time had to pass before I could appreciate what he had accomplished in the HARVEST books. Anderson was not content to rest on the laurels of his previous masterpieces of SF.
Now and then Anderson did write a few stories I thought weak, but surprisingly few of them in a writing career stretching out over 54 years.
Ad astra! Sean
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