Was Pat trying to put one over on me right then? If so, I didn’t catch him wording his thoughts. Tom wonders to himself in his journal if Pat did this deliberately, and would he have done it.
Double Don't Know: Tom is unhappy because Pat arranged to sign the space travel contract last, making him the one who gets to go to space. Hats have apparently gone out of fashion, and many females he sees have their heads shaved. 
Turns out he's referring to them not wearing anything on their heads. Deliberate Values Dissonance: Played for Laughs when Tim returns to Earth and starts going on about how in his day girls weren't allowed to walk around naked.
Tom puts his foot down and makes it clear that Pat is not going to dictate the course of his life any more (though Vicky might end up doing so).
Character Development: Tom returns home to find his brother is an elderly patriarch who expects him to take over the family business. Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Some of the telepaths are not the most sociable people, as their abilities are what's needed. And as far as they can tell the other ships find even fewer. All Planets Are Earthlike: Averted, the Lewis and Clark explores four systems and only finds two inhabitable planets. Tom spends less than three years in space, having to watch from light-years away while his brother ages more than seventy years. But then Pat is paralyzed in a skiing accident and Tom has to go out into space in his place. When Pat is chosen to go on board a relativistic starship while he stays behind to send and receive messages to/from his twin he is instantly jealous. Tom has always resented his twin brother Pat, but then they get involved in "Project Lebensraum" and are discovered to have a telepathic bond. The basic idea is derived from the "Twin paradox" thought experiment in special relativity.
0 kommentar(er)
