"...a spacehand identified by his Brotherhood badge..." -
- as well as:
"...a journeyman merchant of the Polesotechnic League who didn't bother with any identification except the skin weathered by strange suns, the go-to-hell independence in his face, which turned me sick with envy."
-Poul Anderson, "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, 2009), pp. 175-197 AT p. 184.
Jim will make it but many others will not. The series also addresses the dissatisfactions generated by the Polesotechnic League.
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Kaor, Paul!
There's also this bit from the beginning of Chapter 1 of ENSIGN FLANDRY: "On planets so remote that the unaided eye could not see their suns among those twinkling to life above Oceaia, men turned dark and leathery, or thick and weary, by strange weathers lifted glasses in salute."
Another resonance, despite the different context!
Ad astra! Sean
That's definitely Kiplingesque.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
The bit I quoted from ENSIGN FLANDRY might have been written by Kipling. But what Paul quoted from "How To Be Ethnic..." had more a Heinleinian look or feel.
Ad astra! Sean
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