Earth is a few parsecsfrom Sirius, and Sirius I think you know.
Culture had leaped past Earth in all directions, had leaped so far that he could not even recognize it as such, had encompassed the stars and broad new concepts as big as the parsecs of space between the stars.
Earth, interstellarly speaking, is a fewparsecs from Sirius.
Now he was speeding across parsecs of space, praying to himself that the dueling machine had not failed.
SMITH They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men, two women, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home.
We are trying now, by charting the galaxies throughout billions of cubic parsecs of space, to find merely the direction in which our own galaxy lies.
He pulled the portable voicewrite to a comfortable position in front of the view wall and began composing another of the series of letters that had begun months ago in time and parsecs away in space.
Alfred and Melissa--Ulf and Lyssa--they were a part of this ancient explosion that scattered human seed across parsecs of interstellar space.
And as the light-years and the parsecs screamed past, he sank deeper and deeper into a welter of unproductive speculation.
From the time required to make the trip, he knew to within a fewparsecs Trenco's distance from Sol.
And even if it was so, which it isn't, he can do more work sitting perfectly still than any other boss in the whole Works can do tearing around at forty parsecs a minute, so there!
