Lunarian Psychology

The Stars Are Also Fire, 10.

Lunarians differ psychologically not only because they differ physiologically but also because their lifelong environment is antithetical to that which their ancestors had evolved for, not wind, waves, blue sky, clouds, rainbows or seasonal changes but:

"...the naked stone and the scornful stars and a life to make from a new beginning." (p. 140)

Responding to the permanent challenge of this eternal external enemy, Lunarians become autocratic Selenarchs or their faithful retainers, unable either to cooperate with the original species or to conform to the cybercosm.

"But how foreign were their souls?" (ibid.)