As Flandry climbs a crater wall, he hears:
"...the moan of wind..." (p. 233);
crunching snow;
rattling stones;
his breath;
his heartbeat.
The crater floor is:
rock;
ice;
drifting snow;
ultraviolet radiation from which his faceplate protects him.
Above are:
ragged clouds;
alien constellations;
turbulent Regin, the gas giant of which Wayland is a moon.
Why list all these items? Well, Poul Anderson could just have written that Flandry climbed a crater wall and not thought to include all these details. In fact, there are more but I have to stop somewhere.
2 comments:
It makes the setting much more 'present' to the reader.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
Exactly! And I approve of how Anderson so often includes such details.
Ad astra! Sean
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