"Tonight, while the planet turned, its dark side was so radiant as to drown the very metro-centers seen from Luna."
-Poul Anderson, Ensign Flandry IN Anderson, Young Flandry (Riverdale, NY, January 2010), pp. 1-192 AT CHAPTER ONE Evening on Terra -, p. 5.
Metro-centers on Terra can be seen from Luna?
"A crescent moon stood high to westward; metrocenter starpoints glinted across its dark side."
-Poul Anderson, A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows IN Anderson, Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra (Riverdale, NY, March 2012), pp. 339-606 AT III, p. 372.
The second quotation makes clear that the "metrocenters," no longer hyphenated, are on Luna and seen from Terra, not vice versa. Thus, here is another feature of Terra in Flandry's time: visible Lunar urbanization.
Meanwhile, checking on metrocenters, we find that the Coral Palace is featured no less than three times and each time in the reign of a different Emperor, so we should give this extraordinary edifice some attention.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Well, the brightly lit metropolitan areas of the US, esp. the east and west coasts, can be seen from space.
And I can imagine the night time lights of large cities on Luna could be seen from Terra.
Ad astra! Sean
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