Another Sport:
Solar Regatta: a challenging race for the larger fencraft, with a course that Transits the orbits of the Classically-known planets, and has required
"navigational hazards" checkpoints. There are several divisions, but in general nothing smaller than a Type B Motorhome has ever competed, due to the
distances involved.
If I could remember the name of the mundane version of the sport, I'd work up a few sentences for Kandor's "Golden Age Superman Marathon."
Taking advantage of the low gravity of an as-yet-unfinished Lunar base, it involves "leaping tall buildings in a single bound." This isn't often
literally the case, but the same sorts of folks who dash across the tops of 'danelaw buildings in New York and Paris just love the wuxia movie feeling of
roof-hopping in 1/6 G.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
Solar Regatta: a challenging race for the larger fencraft, with a course that Transits the orbits of the Classically-known planets, and has required
"navigational hazards" checkpoints. There are several divisions, but in general nothing smaller than a Type B Motorhome has ever competed, due to the
distances involved.
If I could remember the name of the mundane version of the sport, I'd work up a few sentences for Kandor's "Golden Age Superman Marathon."
Taking advantage of the low gravity of an as-yet-unfinished Lunar base, it involves "leaping tall buildings in a single bound." This isn't often
literally the case, but the same sorts of folks who dash across the tops of 'danelaw buildings in New York and Paris just love the wuxia movie feeling of
roof-hopping in 1/6 G.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll