City And Zamok Sabely'

In World Without Stars

City, an artificial satellite of the colonized planet, Landomar, began as a metal shell but, a few centuries later, has acquired:

towers;

parapets;

domes

ports;

a memorial;

docked ships;

swarming boats.

Felipe Argens' portwife lives in high-weight, overlooking space.

In The Fleet Of Stars

Zamok Sabely', a space habitat orbiting sixty degrees behind the planet Demeter in the system of Alpha Centauri A, began as a stone maneuvered into position and converted into structures which, over the centuries, have come to include:

a faceted hub;

hundred-kilometer spokes;

intricate cables and passages;

a flashing rim;

solar collectors;

spire-like anti-meteor guns;

guardian robotic vessels.

Balanced, harmonious, beautiful and jewel-like, this orbiting city, depot, market, commercial and cultural centre, aerie and castle reminds Guthrie of medieval cathedrals.

Download Guthrie is a consciousness whose memory includes all that.