Corey #12: Gaspard’s Apple

Corey shoots Gaspard’s apple and wins his prize.

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Corey’s Bow #9 Latitude Gardens

#9  Latitude Gardens That night, Corey fell asleep wishing he could tell Gaspard what he had learned in New Zealand. He wondered if GGC-1835 had a southern hemisphere… “Of course I have a southern hemisphere!” said Gaspard. They were walking along with a bright patch of buttercups to their left, a most unusual planting in [...]

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Corey’s Bow #8 Windy Wellington

“I suppose everything will be turned around now, — north, south, east and west, all falling left of target, instead of right.” He stood very still, going over everything he had learned in the northern hemisphere, re-drawing everything in his mind until he was satisfied that all the directions were reversed. Then he shook his head and aimed very carefully right of the fencepost.

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Corey’s Bow #7 Pete’s Equation

Corey muses on various things that might be turned from a straight flight, just because the Earth turns. Pete has an equation about it.

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Corey #6: Which Way West?

By the time it fell, what with the asteroid turning around below and changing its own east and west whilst the arrow was keeping the memory of the asteroid’s old east — by the time it fell, as I say, its west was an old west motion.

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Corey’s Bow #4 GGC-1835

Corey meets Gaspard on his personal asteroid and learns that northbound flight turns east just as do southbound.

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Corey’s New Bow

The beginning of an explanation of Coriolis effect with a story about a child’s bow and arrow.

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