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Story Origin

This story is famous for having been written to match an already painted magazine cover illustration. I'm not sure of a link sourcing this claim, but I have read it several times in different places.

Vance himself recalls this story in The Jack Vance Treasury. as The exact scene as depicted (with a second vessel in the same class in a nearby orbit) is described in the story. Vance mentions first 4, later in the story 5, square miles as the size of the sail, which seems realistic, but which is much larger than the sail depicted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:4995:DE92:22B4:C231 (talk) 15:43, 3 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]