Blish And Anderson On Jupiter V, Part II

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Poul Anderson's Edward Anglesey:

"He looked around, blinking. After the Jovian surface, it was always a little unreal to find himself here again, in the clean, quiet orderliness of the control room."

-"Call Me Joe," p. 11.

James Blish's Robert Helmuth:

"Helmuth did not reply for a moment. The abrupt transition from the storm-ravaged deck of the Bridge to the quiet, placid air of the operations shack on Jupiter's fifth moon was always a shock. He had never been able to anticipate it, let alone become accustomed to it; it was worse each time, not better."

-They Shall Have Stars, CHAPTER FOUR, p. 47.

Simak's characters do not return to their dome.

Anderson's Jovian gravity is 3 Terrestrial whereas Blish's is 2.5. On both versions of Jupiter, ice is a strong building material. Blish adds that, in Jovian conditions, steel is powder and aluminum "...splits at a tap." (p. 30) Thirty miles below the surface of the Bridge, there is a "...raging sea of liquid hydrogen..." (p. 32) There are few "permanent" land-masses with a question mark about their permanence. (p. 49)

Blish accurately describes a gas giant planet, having coined the term.