Jim Ching visiting Betty Riefenstahl in "How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson" (even more than Jim and Betty visiting Adzel):
Coya Conyon with Nicholas van Rijn in the chartered Ythrian ranger, Gaiian (=Dewfall) in "Lodestar";
Christopher Holm/Arinnian and Tabitha Falkayn/Hrill spending an evening in Centauri in The People of the Wind;
Dominic Flandry's souffle breakfast in his Archopolis apartment with the window open to the roof garden in A Stone in Heaven.
Arinnian and Hrill:
walk by the canal in Livewell Street;
eat piscoid-and-tomato chowder, beef-and-shua pie, clustergrain salad and pears and drink coffee spiced with witchroot and vintage dago in the Phoenix House;
meet Vodan and Quenna in the Nest where they drink New African beer.
As Larry Niven commented, Anderson immerses us in the future and puts us into a whole new world.
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Life is built of details. Poul really understood that -- I learned it from him. (and life, of course!)
Details.
Having just read "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir, I think about what stories could be set on Earth after the 'Hail Mary' is launched. What do people do to cope with and mitigate the effects of the dimming sun? What does the cheap & compact energy storage provided by Astrophage do to human technology?
Kaor, Paul!
I agree! And I esp. recall Flandry's amusement about the uniform Chives laid out for him to don, complete with the medals he had won and the Order of Manuel ("the silliest brag of them all").
I know Flandry was knighted for squelching the Scothan threat, but we are not told what he had done to earn the Order of Manuel. For something BIG, obviously.
Ad astra! Sean
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