Starfarers, Starfleet And Starmen

I thought that, somewhere near the end of Starfarers, Nansen said that the Venture League was building a starfleet but now I can't find it. "Starfleet" reminds us of Star Trek and also of Anderson's own The Fleet Of Stars.

A Kithman whose ship has been wrecked says:

"'It will be...not easy...becoming planet dwellers.'"

-Starfarers, 51, p. 490.

 

When they are told that more ships are being built and will need crews, his companion sobs:

 

"'We shall be starfarers again?'" (ibid.)

 

John Amalfi proposes that the people of New York settle on a planet in the Greater Magellanic Cloud:

 

"'We would have to settle down - maybe even take to dirt farming; it would be a matter of giving up being an Okie, and giving up being a starman. That's a lot to give up, I know.'"

-James Blish, Earthman, Come Home IN Blish, Cities In Flight (London, 1981), pp. 235-465 AT CHAPTER SEVEN, p. 420.

 

Some people have always preferred to travel, roam, wander. If a new way of life opens up, then there will be some who will want it and nothing else.