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.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And that scorning of "biotreatment" reminded me of the "biosculpt" we see in the Technic stories.
Ad astra! Sean
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