Sawfish Wrote:
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> It's paradoxical, CAS's vision of diurnal
> conditions in Zothique.
>
> It would seem that with a sun greatly reduced in
> intensity, it would be cooler rather than hotter.
> Drier I can accept, but warmer?
>
> Too, much of the action in some of the stories
> would be extremely difficult unless in some kind
> of full light, or at least aided by torches.
>
> So it's a kind of colorful non-sequitur, to me. I
> simply ignore it and see Zothique as fully lit. I
> lack the imagination to construct a relatively
> concrete image of Fulbra, the king of devastated
> Yoros, on his sea voyage to Cyntrom, in The Isle
> of the Torturers. To me, all this happens in full,
> conventional sunlight. I see it in bright
> sunlight, a breezey day, full of both regret and
> guarded optimism, not in a sort of murky
> blue-black, with a reddish-copperish sun, can't
> see the horizon, nor the waves beyond a few
> yards.
>
Look at the size of the sun in the wonderful
Necronomicon Press edition of Zothique. (I don't own the Ballantine edition, only this.)
In their last phase, stars (i.e. suns) often swell up, before they sputter and go out. So on account of their size I think they may still shed heat, even if their light is a dim glowing red. But I would need to return to my astronomy books, to reaffirm my memory on that.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 30 Jun 21 | 10:56AM by Knygatin.