Hloch compiles and introduces The Earth Book of Stormgate, a companion volume to his mother's The Sky Book of Stormgate which also we do not read. In the first Earth Book instalment, "Wings of Victory," a first person narrator who remains in the orbiting Olga recounts the experiences of three other crew members on the surface of Ythri. Hloch afterwards tells us that this narrator is the planetologist, Maeve Downey, and that the story is an extract from her autobiography, Far Adventure.
In the second Earth Book instalment, "The Problem of Pain," a third person account of Peter Berg's experiences on Gray/Avalon is framed by a first person account of a conversation with Berg on Lucifer. Hloch explains the complicated process by which this account came into his mother's possession via Earth and Esperance.
Earth Book instalments either are extracts from other works or are specially written by Hloch and/or Arinnian of Stormgate Choth whose human name is Christopher Holm and who is a character in The People of the Wind, a title that applies primarily to the winged Ythrians but might also apply to the many human Avalonians who, like Holm, join choths and fly with antigrav belts.
Complicated, you must admit.
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
The obvious thing to do would be to study the extracts given us from Minamoto's article or book and divine from them what was his basic view or argument. The next step would be to attempt figuring out the opposite of that argument, to determine what was the view Minamoto dissented from.
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
It seems the opposite view was condemning psychodrama.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Yes, but how was that condemnation affected by the events recorded in "The Saturn Game"?
Ad astra! Sean
Don't know.
Kaor, Paul!
We would need the sources Minamoto was criticizing.
Ad astra! Sean
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