(urth) not quite Father Inire's mirrors . . .

[David Stockhoff]

Someone needs to write a space opera with a song titled "Tacking Across 
the Photon Winds."

On 6/8/2011 7:59 PM, Son of Witz wrote:
> On Jun 8, 2011, at 10:13 AM, "Dan'l Danehy-Oakes"<danldo at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Gerry Quinn wrote:
>>
>>
>>> "How foolish to call them mirrors. They are to mirrors as the enveloping
>>> firmament is to a child's balloon. They reflect light indeed; but that, I
>>> think, is no part of their true function. They reflect reality, the
>>> metaphysical substance that underlies the material world."
>> I think what they really reflect is a great deal of handwaving on
>> Wolfe's part, and a not insignificant quantity of willing suspension
>> of disbelief on the reader's part.
>>
>> -- 
>> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
>>
> +1
>
> I always trip out at the level of scientific analysis around here. How big the moon should look in the cover pic, and such.  Very interesting, but it cracks me up. I had a laugh when I read about the photon wind driving the sails. I took it as a peotic notion, and not hard science fiction. I think Wolfe's poetic side wins out over his engineer side quite often.
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