The University of the Sun

摘要

A chime in his office informed him that the third and final candidate had arrived for the test. He kept a physical office in the University of the Sun with a view of the curve of Istor College, and - as the university drifted between the sun and the perihelion of Mercury - a veined sunsky of roiling violet. Ezekiel was a solar academic specialising in human studies, and he pressed the rituals of humanity-gender, the office, the interview and Christmas - on his fellow emergences at every opportunity.