Earth and Sky is an interactive fiction trilogy written by Paul O'Brian about the adventures of a brother and sister who gain superpowers while searching for their lost parents. The first part, Earth and Sky was entered in the 2001 annual Interactive Fiction Competition where it finished eighth. The second part (Another Earth, Another Sky) was considerably more successful, winning the competition in 2002 as well as picking up the 2002 XYZZY Award for Best Use of Medium. The third part, Luminous Horizon, also managed to win the Interactive Fiction Competition when it was released in 2004.
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“The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son of earth and of Heaven, and by his greater strength and endurance his fainting companions will recognize the God in him. It is the worshipers of beauty, after all, who have done the real pioneer work of the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are—
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)
“Tried by a New England eye, or the more practical wisdom of modern times, they are the oracles of a race already in its dotage; but held up to the sky, which is the only impartial and incorruptible ordeal, they are of a piece with its depth and serenity, and I am assured that they will have a place and significance as long as there is a sky to test them by.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)