"'...Ayres of Antarctica.'"
-Poul Anderson, "The Game of Glory" IN Anderson, Captain Flandry: Defender Of The Terran Empire (Riverdale, NY, February 2010), pp. 303-339 AT II, p. 310.
Our daughter's partner, Mike, is a Eyre of Birmingham.
Ayres and Eyre sound similar despite their two spelling differences.
The multiracial, multicultural British city, Birmingham, prefigures Poul Anderson's multispecies Terran Empire - although I now suspect that multispecies civilizations are in the realm of fantasy rather than of hard sf.
Merseians and Ythrians are akin to trolls and elves.
Got to finish second coffee and move.
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