The Silver River lute). The story is based on a 4,000-year-old Chinese folktale about the creation of Night and Day, a story of star-crossed lovers. "The Silver River" is the Chinese name for what is known in the West as the "Milky Way", the galaxy of the solar system. In Chinese tradition, the Silver River bathed heaven and earth in constant light and connected both realms, allowing earthly and celestial creatures to meet. The Jade Emperor, Lord of Heaven, dreams of a chaos that plunges heaven and earth into darkness. His nightmare comes true when the mortal Cowherd (also known as Buffalo Boy
The Menace from Earth is also one of the many Heinlein characters mentioned in "The Number of the Beast". Floyd C. Gale of "Galaxy Science Fiction" called "The Menace from Earth" a "startler", praising it as a "Ladies Home Journal" story "set in a wildly imaginative alien environment". The Menace from Earth "The Menace From Earth" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein, first published in the August 1957 issue of "The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction". The story is set in the near future, when the Moon is colonized with people living in underground cities. The "menace"