At Home

"Starfog."

"She'd spoken of Kirkasant so often that he felt he had almost been there himself." (p. 749)

See:

On Kirkasant 

I Remember Hermes 

Nostalgia For Ys 

 

Some people are familiar with Dublin from reading James Joyce's Ulysses.

 

"Doubtless [Kirkasant] had its glories, but by his standards it was a grim, dry, storm-scoured world where he would not care to stay for long at a time. Of course, to her it was beloved home..." (ibid.)

 

Exactly. Human beings have made themselves at home on every part of Earth so no doubt they can do it even on Kirkasant, especially after a lot of mortality, mutation and natural selection:

 

"Evolution galloped. Population exploded. In one or two millennia, man was at home on Kirkasant." (p. 730)

 

Love those two-word sentences. So much summarized in so few words.