"In youth he'd done excellent field work, especially in the trade-route cultures of Cynthia..."
-"Wings of Victory," pp. 75-102 AT p. 83.
"(Oh, treetop highways under the golden-red sun of Cynthia!..."
-"How To Be Ethnic In One Easy Lesson," pp. 175-197 AT p. 183.
"...you didn't even have visitors of your own species, because the ship that regularly called belonged to a Cynthian carrier..."
-"Esau," pp. 517-553 AT p. 524.
We meet our first Cynthian, Chee Lan, in the following volume of The Technic Civilization Saga.
IMSM, Cynthia was named after the girlfriend of the captain of Grand Survey ship who first visited it. In OTL, I don't think the IAU (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_naming_conventions)would approve.
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