Showing posts with label "Que Donn'rez Vous?" by Poul Anderson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Que Donn'rez Vous?" by Poul Anderson. Show all posts

Friday, 17 April 2015

Jupiter

I like Poul Anderson's descriptions of vast three dimensional environments traversed by space explorers. see here and here. Another is the Jovian atmosphere. I know three kinds of fictional Jupiter:

those with a solid surface;
those that are dense gasses all the way down to a solid core - real gas giants;
the one in Poul Anderson's "What'll You Give?" which has a surface although it is too far down under a dense atmosphere for anyone to see it.

In that third case, Anderson describes a flight through the atmosphere. We will consider this in more detail when I am not rushing out to a social event.