-Poul Anderson, "The Game of Glory" IN Anderson, Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 303-339 AT I, p. 304.
"Corpses lay strewn among blackened, twisted hulks. Behind them, the hills out of which the guerillas had struck rose dark, tortuous, riddled and seamed with hiding places, toward Arsia Mons and a sky the color of clotting blood."
-The Fleet Of Stars, 20, p. 252.
"...landscape tumbled away in black desolation, weirdly pocked and riven, against a sky gone murrey."
-ibid., p. 256.
The sky always obliges with appropriate color coding. These scenes would have fitted in the Dune film which we saw last night which shows how feasible it would be to film Poul Anderson's future histories.
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Kaor, Paul!
That word "murrey" caught my attention: a dark reddish purple color.
I've started rereading THE GAME OF EMPIRE and this bit from Chapter 1 caught my eye: "Ah, ho, small one," bawled Hassan from the doorway of his inn. "If he be thirsty, steer him to the Sign of the Golden Cockbeetle. A decicredit to you for every liter he [Fr. Axor] drinks." To me that indicated the Empire's currency, the "credit," used a decimal system. My guess is a hundred cents or pence made up a credit. Hassan was promising Diana Crowfeather a tenth of every credit Fr. Axor spent on the amount of beer a huge being like him would need.
Ad astra! Sean
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