Paste a passage from your favourite speculative fiction, replacing all the proper nouns with “Lemmy”. Then I’ll try to guess where it came from without using google :)
Paste a passage from your favourite speculative fiction, replacing all the proper nouns with “Lemmy”. Then I’ll try to guess where it came from without using google :)
“Long ago, Lemmy had stood at the void edge of Mount Lemmy. The Long Fall River, on that world, ends in the tallest waterfall in known space. Lemmy’s eyes had followed it down as far as they could penetrate the void mist. The featureless white of the void itself had grasped at his mind, and Lemmy, half hypnotized, had sworn to live forever. How else could he see all there was to see? Now he reaffirmed that decision.”
I do not know this one. So I begin meandering, like a river ;)
It feels space opera. “void edge” and “void space” evoke megaconstructions, but the void here is white, not black. So it could also be some sort of different physics, like in Baxter’s Raft. Or it could be something like the shell world in Banks’s Matter. Could be something like Hamilton’s Void Trilogy – but I don’t remember the void being white.
Hopefully someone else can guess it :)
I won’t give the answer just yet, then. :)