On the floating platform:
structures are tinted pastel;
pedestrians chatter cheerfully;
flowers blaze;
floral fragrance penetrates salt air.
Beyond the platform:
the sun dusts blue waves with diamond;
a great ship holds a community of extended families;
a shuttle carries Iokepa and Fenn to the atoll, Nauru, covered with colourful parks, gardens and buildings - the centrum of the Lahui Kuikawa polity which also covers many other islands and large ships.
Welcome to one mixed community on Earth in this period of this future history series: maybe reminiscent of the Maurai in an earlier Andersonian future history?
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteThe Lahui Kuikawa was one of the few polities on the Earth of that era which had any real meaning, not just playing empty games.
Ad astra! Sean