Kinna and Elverir meet Scoria, the leader of the Inrai, Martian Lunarian freedom fighters:
"...lean, hatchet-faced, yellow-eyed, white skin darkened and leathered by a lifetime's accumulation of stray radiation. Scorning biotreatment, he remained totally bald, and a scar puckered his right cheek. Or were those trademarks?" (p. 120)
He resembles Ernst Stavro Blofeld as played by Donald Pleasance in You Only Live Twice. See A Cat And A Rocket. This time I think that it is possible that Poul Anderson wrote with that particular screen version of Blofeld in mind. Certain images are embedded in the general consciousness.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteAnd that scorning of "biotreatment" reminded me of the "biosculpt" we see in the Technic stories.
Ad astra! Sean