AtDDtA1: The Declining Light

[Monte Davis]

And, of course of course, reflecting on recursion with the hybrid train +
sky-ship system (AtD 796):

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...as the boys watched, the highest envelopes of the fleet were taken by the
arc of Earth's shadow advancing, flowing then in swift descent among the
lacquered-silk flanks of the others, sweeping down onto the countryside at
last, to release it from quotidian light. Soon all that could be seen were
an earthbound constellation of red and green running-lights.

"As above," remarked Miles Blundell, "so below."