Stakeout Canyon
First appears in Book 1: Pandora's Star, chapter 5 (FOUR)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Pandora's Star
- Ch 5Stakeout Canyon is a funnel-shaped canyon between Zeus and Titan that channels annual storms from the Hondu Ocean; storm winds are forced up Herculaneum's cliff.
Book 2: Judas Unchained
- Ch 18The hyperglider must be tethered here tomorrow night to catch the morning storm.
- Ch 18The drive from the town to Stakeout Canyon takes about six hours; tourist groups normally leave at noon.
- Ch 19The storm funnels through Stakeout Canyon at around a hundred miles an hour and shoots up the cliff as a vertical waterfall.
Connections
- inFar Away
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 5Hyperglider launch in the storm
Justine waits out her fear, then releases her hyperglider tethers in the storm and is carried up Stakeout Canyon on a vertical wall of wind and water.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Hypergliders tethered in the wet desert
The group tethers three hypergliders along Stakeout Canyon for the morning storm launch. Oscar, Anna and Wilson board; the rest retreat to shelter at Mount Zeus.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Paula turns back to Oscar
Paula hears Bradley's reply, concludes Oscar is not the agent, and has Rosamund turn the jeep back toward Stakeout Canyon to question him.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Paula exposes Anna
Paula reasons that Oscar is cleared and that only Anna could be the Starflyer agent; Wilson reluctantly accepts it as Anna stays silent.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Oscar confesses Abadan
During the ascent Oscar tells Wilson about his role in the Abadan bombing and reveals his real name, Gene Yaohui.
- Book 2 · Ch 19Oscar rams Anna
Oscar plunges his hyperglider into Anna's as she closes on Wilson; both crash, and Wilson rides the waterfall and a twister toward Aphrodite's Seat.