![]() Wondrous snow, falling on a distant planet.Īh, sorry, I hadn't thought I'd been away so long. But don't get excited about the end, I still have a pen and ink! One more after this poem and we will have exhausted my science poems for the time being. I hope you all like this one, written before Pluto was reduced to sub-planet status. From the Olaf Staledon Online Archive at And because I can't resist it, a fragment from my own upcoming chapbook THE PUMPKIN PLANET AND OTHER POEMS (I have no mouth and I must Spam): Stapledon wrote some "scientipoetry" too: In the meantime here's another poem I hope you will enjoy: When I get more info Greg Bear, sir, I will send it. ![]() I looked for anything posted online but it was a no go so I emailed Ursula Gibson, Poet Laureate of Tujunga. As you had asked if I could recommend any other science poetry I polled my friend at the California Federation of Chaparral Poets (of which I am a member at large) and came away with the name of another member who also writes, astronomer Jim Gibson. I find poetry and science go rather well together. Unfortunately my loaned out copy has never come back.but I remember it as being in the long "daily life of the Last Men" sections of that novel. Memory also says this same material is covered in LAST MEN IN LONDON. Haven't gotten to the point where it takes about Artificial Atoms in the Skeletal structure of the last men. This in reference to Titanic Buildings on Neptune. "These mightest of all buildings, which are constructed in adamantine materials formed of artificial atoms" My stand-alone copies are very "pug-dog eared" as a result.Īnd I did remember correctly, the mention of artificial atoms is on page 264 of the 1988 Tarcher edition.a couple of pages in to chapter XV. Since 1990 I have re-read LAST AND FIRST MEN and STARMAKER some where between once every three to five years.or just reading sections of each at random. Ah.if you haven't read it in a while, that would explain it.
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