The People Of The Wind is a short novel with a large cast, each character individually realized. If we try to include even spear carriers:
Daniel Holm
Christopher Holm
Daniel's wife/Christopher's mother mentioned
Eyath
Lythran
Blawsa
Ferune
a sailor
a herder
Tabitha Falkayn
Vodan
Ekrem Saracoglu
Luisa Cajal
a Gorzunian guard/chaperone
Philippe Rochefort
Wa Chaou
Abdullah Helu
Eve Davisson
Matthew Vickery
Liaw
Quenna
a woman called by Arrinian who is at work
a second whose husband is home
a third who is available
Admiral Cajal
Ferune's aide
a captain of Cajal's staff
other men on his staff
Draun
six Ythrians following Tabitha and Draun
Ferune's widow, sons, daughters and their families
the new Wyvan of Mistwood
Liaw's colleagues
a North Coronan rancher
Marchwarden Rusa
High Wyvan Trauvay
Captain Ion Munteanu
Ensign Ozumi
Corporal Ahmed Nasution
ten men attacked by lycosauroids
a Terran major
a medical officer
a commandant
a civilian planetologist
Nyesslan
forty Terrans reading or bitching in an Avalonian ward
A wide cross-section of humanity and Ythrianity plus one Gorzunian and one Cynthian.
6 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
A large cast indeed, and one where a writer less competent than Anderson could have made a hopeless mess of it.
Ad astra! Sean
"loathes physical exercises and sometimes does them under double gravity to halve the time."
That sounds like there is greater risk of injury, which would be counter-productive. Gradually increasing the gravity in which you exercise *might* do more good than harm. That is similar to strength training while increasing the weights you lift over weeks or months.
When I am exercising indoors I usually listen to podcasts for some intellectual interest. Getting my aerobic exercise outside by biking or XC skiing means there is more visually interesting surroundings so I don't have podcasts on then.
I agree. I think Flandry's practice sounds dangerous.
Kaor, Jim!
I agree, Flandry was pushing it too hard. Take it easy, Sir Dominic!
Ad astra! Sean
Flandry is a risk-taker, but (as an adult) he carefully calculates the risks. I think he -would- increase the gravity of his exercise program gradually -- he just -ends up- with 2x.
Kaor, Mr. Stirling!
I should have thought of that--Flandry gradually increasing the gravity in which he exercised. Meaning, even when "approaching seventy," he could endure the heavy gravity of Imhotep.
Ad astra! Sean
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