Jeanne Robinson
4 Quotations from Jeanne Robinson
| astrogating n. | 1979 Stardance (1980) iii. 222 We essentially widened the circle of our orbit until it intersected the Trojan point—decelerating like hell all the way so that we’d be at rest relative to it when we got there. It had to be at least partly by-guess-and-by-God, because any transit in Saturn’s system is a ten-body problem (don’t even think about the Ring), and Bill was an equal partner with the computer in that astrogating job. He did a world-class job, as I had known he would, wasting no fuel and, more important, no passengers. |
| gravity n. | 1977 Stardance in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact Mar. 49/2 I’ll exercise in three gravities, and I’ll sleep in two, and I’ll make this body last. I know I can. |
| spacehound n. | 1978 Stardance II in Analog Sept. 27/1 My attempts to play seasoned old spacehound to Norrey’s breathless tourist were laughably unsuccessful. No one ever gets jaded to space, and I took deep satisfaction in being the one who introduced Norrey to it. |
| space legs n. | 1994 Starmind (1996) xx. 209 Rand already had his ‘space legs,’ could handle himself in free-fall—but all his experience was indoors, inside pressurized cubics. Everyone said that to really feel space, it was necessary to spend a lot of hours EVA. |