JDG wrote: > >Summary: >Chapter 5 is unusually short in comparison to the first four. More >Brin-like in a way. > Yes, and it takes just one Stratoin day. >Maia has left Grange Head, and has passed through the mountains to Clay >Town. Maia is earning her railroad fare by helping load and unload cargo >for the railroad clans. > I suspect that she left the same day. More than that and she would have know more about Tizbe. Also: p.119: "yesterday" Fontana train was late 4 hours, "today" the Musseli train might get late too. >Analysis: >Stratos appears to be the second attempt at this expirement, the first >being the aptly named "Herlandia", failed. (pg 117) Lysos was apparently >involved in this expirement, which discovered that technology cannot >"safely" remove men from the reproductive process. > Notice also that the experiments with parthenogenesis failed. There's a reference to Lysos's book _Forging Destiny_ (p.116) >Technology: >-Solar Power (pg 121) > Also the solar-electric locomotives, faster than horse or sailing ships > >Lifeforms >-Kuorn Grass: purple flowers (pg 121) >-Zahu: plant of many species and many uses (pg 122) > 47+ local species (p.122) My notes: p.124: 1/2 of the population of the place (Clay Town?) is made of single women with one winter kid p.124: it's difficult to conceive at other times of the year until the woman has a clone kid p.126: the boy that was seduced is Garn, the women are Lennie and Rose, the older man is Jacko, and the older woman is Mirri from the Beller clan. p.129: a quote about Summer: "during high Summer, when Aurorae danced and bright Wengel Star called out the old beast in males" Alberto Monteiro
