In Poul Anderson's The Stars Are Also Fire, Dagny Ebbeson attends the Fireball school in Quito and see also:
Further Future Furniture
Van Rijn POV VI
We get used to certain background references but then we notice that they are cropping up in different timelines. I am now able to search the blog to find out where a setting like Quito has been mentioned before although there may be more.
3 comments:
Paul:
I'd venture a guess that being almost smack-dab on the equator (as the country's name references) likely has something to do with it. If you're going to build a space elevator (assuming for the moment that the technological problems in such are solved), a place on the equator that's also nearly three kilometers above sea level is desirable real estate.
David,
I think so, too.
Paul.
Kaor, DAVID!
That's what I remember too, probably from SF stories and non fiction discussing such things.
Sean
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