A school bus on Rustum is a flying vehicle. When it takes off, its driver, Jan Svoboda, sees:
the school's sod roofs and dusty playing field;
the timber village of Anchor;
the Swift and Smoky Rivers descending from the Centaur Mountains to join as the Emperor;
land green with some blue;
dark woods;
corn and rye;
murky forest;
hills rising into the Hercules range;
reddened Centaur snowpeaks;
a big, bright, slowly descending, orange sun in a wan blue sky.
Children born on Rustum accept this environment as natural and know Earth and Sol only as history lessons.
Every fictional Andersonian planet is described in detail.
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