Walking the Earth: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''I cannot rest from travel: I will drink''

''Life to the lees:'' }}

* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s blind singer Rhysling, composer of the song "[[The Green Hills of Earth]]" in the short story of the same name. Until the accident that blinded him, he had been a spaceship engineer; after the accident, he took advantage of the informal custom that a spacer could have one free trip home, using it to wander at will all over the solar system.

** His most famous character, Lazarus Long, spends centuries wandering the galaxy. His wanderings are fueled both by boredom, and by needing to move on from a community before the locals start to suspect his immortality.

* The [[Dream Weaver|soulscapers]] in [[Storm Constantine]]'s ''[[Burying the Shadow]]''. Justified in that there are so many of them in their home city that they have to wander far from home in order to find work.

* ''Voyage of the "Princess Ark"'' (first published as series in ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' magazine, later collected in ''Champions of Mystara'') is a [[Mockumentary|log]] of an Alphatian airship wandering the skies of [[Mystara]] ([[Space Sailing|and beyond]]), as narrated by the captain and a few other officers.

 

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