Thursday 19 October 2017

Lucifer And Sub-Lucifer

"Lucifer" is:

the evening star;
a character in works of graphic fiction written by Neil Gaiman and Mike Carey (see here);
a place on Venus in Poul Anderson's Psychotechnic History (see here);
an extrasolar planet in Anderson's Technic History (see here);
a space-dwelling energy being in Anderson's "Kyrie" (see here);
a space-dwelling energy being in James Blish's Jack Loftus novels (see here).

And Sub-Lucifer is a place on Venus in Anderson's Technic History. See here.

Thus, there is a partial parallel between two place names on Venus in Anderson's first two future histories.

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

One thing to remember about Anderson's "The Big Rain" is how it was a more accurate depiction of Venus than what we see in "Sister Planet." Altho the latter is more emotionally dramatic.

Sean