Note: Luckily for Blanche, and for Matter-Phase research, Leonard was able to put the pieces of the story together when the wreckage of Blanche’s car was found a few hours later. He was then able to reverse Blanche’s condition. Afterward,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Blanche is half-right. Philip Pembroke was a bit of a waste, but that changed sometime after this story is set. He eventually left the service of the Frazier estate (they never really needed him anyway; he was more of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: There was no way for Blanche to know at the time, but she was lucky that the fork and the gun she manipulated contained no pure iron. As anyone today knows, iron has a destabilizing effect on phase fields.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: The howling of the Virokas here is an affectation. There is no physiological cue for howling built into them, nor do they have the correct vocal configuration for such howling. Also: they certainly would have been communication with radios.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Leonard’s Grandfather was Kyle Frazier, the second officer on board the first colony ship to arrive on Titan, the unironically named Titanic, in 2189. The officer’s families became the first elite of Titan, as they were the first to claim[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: While personal firearms were illegal across the entire Sol system at this time, exceptions were made for homesteading, and it was not strange for these homesteaders to bring single-shot muzzle-loading weapons. They are easy to maintain over long stretches of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: The discoveries that were made about the effects of phase shifts on sentient subjects led directly into the research on what we now call Acuity Engines. Many of the same forces are at work in both technologies. If Blanche[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: At this time, even the deepest, darkest parts of the Titanic wilderness were (on a typical night) perfectly safe even in the middle of the night. Later, Titan would come to be known as a lawless wasteland, but crime[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: Titan was settled by homesteaders under the same program that settled Luna and Mars, but due to the added expense of getting out to Titan, and the amount of land which was still freely available on Mars at the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…