Luke Devon, the Planetary Engineer and Rostomily Brother, quotes from Henry IV, Part 1, Act 1, Scene 2, in the middle of an action scene on p. 232, then is shot, although not killed, by a man whom Captain Banning then kills by throwing kitchen knives in zero gravity. Passengers are trying to hijack the ship although we do not yet know why. Several characters have been killed and more will be. I have summarized all of this action in earlier posts.
Tomorrow will hopefully be a day trip to London which is a long way from Lancaster, from North West to South East, so there will be few or no posts.
3 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
One amusing I bit I remembered from "Brake" was a shocking crewman exclaiming "Can passengers mutiny?," with Capt. Banning saying that was an interesting legal point.
Ad astra! Sean
I think the term 'hijacking' for such things did not become commonplace until a few decades after the story was written.
Kaor, Jim!
Probably from terrorists and other criminals hijacking passenger airliners.
Ad astra! Sean
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