Tuesday, 25 February 2025

Spaceships And Planets

A common sf scenario: A spaceship arrives at a new planet. Its crew must answer questions about the planet like which is the dominant species etc. The spaceship can be:

In Poul Anderson's Technic History
a ship of the Grand Survey
a trade pioneer crew
a ship of the Allied Planets re-civilizing isolated colonies
a Commonalty Rangers ship

In Anderson's Kith History/Starfarers
an exploratory expedition
a Kith ship

Others
one of James Blish's Okie cities
the USS Enterprise
a one-off ship in a one-off story

But examples are endless.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

And we should recall how Old Nick talked of making one last really long journey of exploration in his advancing old age at the end of MIRKHEIM.

Ad astra! Sean