Friday 28 January 2022

Planets And People

Approaching Iapetus:

"'Are you calling Jean a liar?' he growled...
"'Please!' Broberg exclaimed. 'Not a quarrel, Colin.'"
-"The Saturn Game," I, pp. 3-4.
 
Approaching Ythri:
 
"'Mind your manners...'
"'Please.' Yukiko reached from her turret and laid a hand on either man's shoulder. 'Please don't quarrel...when we're about to meet a whole new history.'"
-Poul Anderson, "Wings of Victory" IN Anderson, The Van Rijn Method (Riverdale, NY, 2009), pp. 75-102 AT p. 83.
 
Men go to other planets - and take themselves with them.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And take our flaws, faults, vices, etc., wherever human beings go.

Ad astra! Sean