( through the seemingly fantastical lens on the story, clarke can still pick out enough familiar notions to root ready parallels to the world she knew. namely, natural disasters and airships, especially since she'd sent a small group of her friends into space in hopes they'd be able to ride out the end of the world right as a wave of radiation bared down on them all. and maybe that was more of a man made disaster, but she has to imagine both types of destruction leave scorched earth in their wake.
almost 100 years in space, and humanity told and retold the same stories over and over again. carefully preserved the books the original grounders had brought with them onto their space stations. wrote down whatever they could remember from before. but that still left gaps in the human history, and only so many fairytales to chew on as little girls grew up behind reinforced portholes looking out across swaths of stars and darkness.
originium and oripathy are unfamiliar by default, but clarke is taking it as commentary on the utterly predictable way society looked down on the building blocks of their world and ignored their suffering so long as it didn't impact the upper crusts happiness. like coal miners suffering from the black lung, or soldiers crippled with ptsd. like the other children on the ark who ate the half rations their parents stole, and would later be executed for stealing, who would later become the sky people's caged canary when it came to figuring out if earth would ever be habitable again. )
So, your cities are powered by the residue of the very thing that would otherwise destroy them? Do your people wish the catastrophe's would stop so you didn't have to move anymore, or are they so accustomed to the benefits of the ( yes she stumbles over the word for a hot second ) Originium that they've come to look forward to natural disasters?
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( through the seemingly fantastical lens on the story, clarke can still pick out enough familiar notions to root ready parallels to the world she knew. namely, natural disasters and airships, especially since she'd sent a small group of her friends into space in hopes they'd be able to ride out the end of the world right as a wave of radiation bared down on them all. and maybe that was more of a man made disaster, but she has to imagine both types of destruction leave scorched earth in their wake.
almost 100 years in space, and humanity told and retold the same stories over and over again. carefully preserved the books the original grounders had brought with them onto their space stations. wrote down whatever they could remember from before. but that still left gaps in the human history, and only so many fairytales to chew on as little girls grew up behind reinforced portholes looking out across swaths of stars and darkness.
originium and oripathy are unfamiliar by default, but clarke is taking it as commentary on the utterly predictable way society looked down on the building blocks of their world and ignored their suffering so long as it didn't impact the upper crusts happiness. like coal miners suffering from the black lung, or soldiers crippled with ptsd. like the other children on the ark who ate the half rations their parents stole, and would later be executed for stealing, who would later become the sky people's caged canary when it came to figuring out if earth would ever be habitable again. )
So, your cities are powered by the residue of the very thing that would otherwise destroy them? Do your people wish the catastrophe's would stop so you didn't have to move anymore, or are they so accustomed to the benefits of the ( yes she stumbles over the word for a hot second ) Originium that they've come to look forward to natural disasters?