Natural Descriptions

Pytheas appears and later has an interstellar spaceship named after him in Poul Anderson's The Boat Of A Million Years and is quoted in Anderson's The Enemy Stars. His description of the Outer Hebrides remains valid. In winter, leaden sea meets leaden sky and leaden light obscures the horizon. Day differs little from night.

By contrast, a New Zealand sunset is bright gold to the west, green and royal blue to the east. Anderson's characters will visit a dark star but first they experience contrasting regions of their home planet.

We are also shown colony planets: Sarai and Krasna (and see here). "Krasna" reminded me of James Blish's The Quincunx Of Time but there it is the name of a character, not of a planet.

What does "spaceman" mean when interstellar teleportation is used? We will learn more.