in "The Snows of Ganymede," Callisto and Ganymede are going to be terraformed;
in "Brake," Europa is going to be terraformed;
in "The Acolytes," Wilson Pete's father, an engineer, has:
"'...been assigned to a project on Sol VIII.'" (p. 6)
- i.e., on Neptune.
Thus, human activity expands out through the Solar System.
By the same token:
in "The Big Rain," Venus is being terraformed;
in "Cold Victory," Venus has been terraformed;
in "The Acolytes," Stellamont, the only city on Nerthus, is a few buildings on a broad plain;
in The Peregrine, Stellamont has grown much bigger and has even acquired a native section. See here.
History happens.
Wilson Pete is ten. His uncle, Thorleifsson Gunnar, has a blue, bald Javartenanian servant, Tobur, who tells Pete fine stories. Tobur has been with Gunnar since leaving Javartenan yet has been on many planets that Gunnar never mentions:
"...and he wouldn't lie to a fellow." (p. 11)
We return to the ambiguity of the yarn.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
Fictions are "lies" that readers temporarily accept as "true" while reading them. Good stories makes us willing to suspend our disbelief in them.
Ad astra! Sean
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