Word Pictures
(Don't know if it's off-topic but couldn't figure out where else to post it)
“The sun had gone so low that haze turned its disk golden-orange. A broken road of brightness ran from it over the wavelets, casting glitter to either side. They were purple in the distance, tawny closer to hand. Here and there, swayed dark patches, native thalassophyte; but overhead, in heights still blue, shone the wings of three gulls.”
I encountered this in a SciFi novel, a genre I’ve not read for some time. It blew me away, making me wonder if I have the skills to paint a picture with words like that. I could close my eyes and SEE the scene.
The problem for me is, that by the end of the first chapter, I still am not sure of who and what it is about.
Anyone care to guess who the author is and which of his many books it came from?
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