Friday, 26 July 2024

What The Trader Team Does When We Do Not See Them

In "Day of Burning," David Falkayn tells Morruchan Long-Ax, Hand of the Vach Dathyr, that he has seen planets where there had been all-out nuclear strikes and no civil defence: "planets," plural. Thus, he has been on at least two such planets between instalments. 

In Mirkheim, he remembers Coya beside him beholding crooked towers on a planet not yet named by human beings and, on another occasion, bringing him sandwiches and coffee while he studied readouts on a new planet that they were orbiting. These two memories are from the period when Coya had joined the team.

Are there any others? I don't think so.

Tomorrow will be a day trip to London by train, not coach, thus quicker than usual but nevertheless a day mostly away from the computer.

For some of us at least, Poul Anderson's Technic History remains endlessly fascinating.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

It is implicitly implied Falkayn had other such memories.

Ad astra! Sean