Harvest Of Stars (1993)
The Stars Are Also Fire (1994)
Harvest The Fire (1995)
The Fleet Of Stars (1997)
In Harvest Of Stars, 61, the only extra-solar colonies so far are Demeter and the asteroids in the Alpha Centauri system. The Astronomy Web in that system detects planets with oxygen atmospheres in orbit around:
82 Eridani;
Beta Hydri;
HD44594 in Puppis.
A near-light-speed spaceship bearing a Guthrie download is sent to each of these systems. On their return, each of the downloads is merged with the original. HD44594 II, Bion, is already full of complex life but another planet in that system, with more rudimentary life, is suitable for terraforming, even more so than those at 82 Eridani and Beta Hydri.
In The Fleet Of Stars, there are colonies on:
Beta Hydri IV, Amaterasu;
Hestia at HD44594;
Isis, which must therefore be at 82 Eridani.
From casual references in the text and dialogue, we are able to deduce the connections.
5 comments:
And the AI is trying to discourage interstellar movement.
Deffo.
Paul: you know, I heard that 'deffo' from my mother occasionally... 8-).
FrKaor, to Both!
A Briticism, I assume?
Other British turns of speech I know of, mostly from reading:
Blimey
Mum
Tart (meaning prostitute)
Ad astra! Seanom Sean M. Brooks:
That "Fr" was meant to be "From Sean M.Brooks"
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