The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hesper \Hes"per\, n. [See Hesperian.] The evening; Hesperus.
Usage examples of "hesper".
The patterns are abstract and mean very little in astronomical terms to the year-captain—there is no way to achieve a direct view of the normal universe from within the nospace tube, and Hesper must work entirely by means of analogs and equivalents—but even so it reassures him in some obscure way to be reminded that those whose lives are totally confined by the unyielding boundaries of this small vessel sixteen light-years from the world of their birth are nevertheless not completely alone in the cosmos.
What Hesper views here is not the sky itself, nor even any one-to-one equivalent of it, but simply the nospace correlative of the sky, a map of energy sources in realspace as they have been translated into utterly alien nospace terms.
He is working alone in the control cabin, poring over a thick batch of documents that Zed Hesper has brought him: a new set of formal analyses of three or four of his best prospects for a planetary landing, set forth in much greater detail than Hesper has been able to supply previously.
The year-captain has called a general meeting of the crew, and Hesper will lecture them on his newest findings and conclusions.
He will declare that Hesper has identified a world that holds potential for settlement—several, as a matter of fact—and that they will immediately begin to direct their course toward the most promising of them with the intention of carrying out an exploratory landing.
Sieglinde continues to mutter, but Hesper will not be turned from his path.
Unperturbed, Hesper continues blandly: “We note also the minute presence of methane, one part in 1.
After Hesper goes, there is much consulting of star-maps and the ship's navigation circuitry.
They look, surprisingly, very much as she had always imagined them: Roy fleshy and red-faced, Sylvia fragile, the year-captain lean and fierce, Heinz handsome and constantly smiling, and so on and so on, Elliot and Marcus and Chang and Julia and Hesper and Giovanna and the rest, everyone matching expectations.
Practically everyone except Hesper, Sieglinde, and a couple of the others has taken to spending three or four hours a day in the gaming lounge.
Noelle and Hesper, for God's sake, down in Hesper's little chamber of Hashing colored lights that she would never be able to see?
The time has arrived now to emerge from nospace and set about reaching a decision about whether to attempt a landing on the world that Zed Hesper has labeled Planet A.
The year-captain is on the phone to Zed Hesper, who remains holed up in his scanning room down below.
Planet A itself is the fourth of the six worlds of this G2 sun, Hesper reminds him.
And there is just a touch of methane, too, precisely as Hesper had predicted—indicating a strong likelihood that the processes of life are going on down there.