Wind And A Pulsar

There are several more Biblical references in Fury. You just have to keep reading.

Meanwhile, back in Starfarers, 26:

"Mokena gathered her words as she walked. The wind shrilled." (p. 245)

Shrilling wind indicates that there will be difficulties in what is to be said. If four crew members travel in Envoy to explore a nearby pulsar, then the other six will be left on Tahir and will be stranded there if Envoy fails to return. And why do most Tahirians seem to dread a return to starfaring? The artificial human-Tahitian language needs another year to become fully useable. Predictably, the human explorers remain surrounded by more that is unknown than known. What is certain is that a spaceship crew that traverses five thousand light years will discover at its destination phenomena that are not observable from the Solar System. So a fictional account that did not introduce anything new would be both wrong and inauthentic. We must rely on the author's creative imagination - scientifically informed, of course.