It is time for more character interactions. Fenn, who has been in space, in the orbiting Habitat, inside Luna and both on and under the Pacific, is now on Mars where he:
hikes and talks with Kinna Ronay;
quotes from his conversation with Chuan;
remembers Wanika;
is concerned about the cybercosm;
hears the wind in his sonics (see Wind On Mars);
asks to be introduced to Martian Lunarians.
Plot threads converge but slowly because of the distances involved.
A Martian skinsuit extends three legs to form a stool when its wearer sits! How many readers have remembered that detail?
In Chapter 12, Fenn, back on Earth, in fact in antiquarian London, with Wanika, receives a recorded message from Kinna, still on Mars, and that is as far as we are about to reread this Sunday breakfast time.
Ad Martem!
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