“The stars, like all man’s other ventures, were an obvious impracticality, as rash and improbable an ambition as the first venture of man onto Earth’s great oceans, or into the air, or into space.”   A few years ago I read the Cyteen novels, which exist in this same universe as this one, but is not a sequel. Instead, we have some world-building here. Space colonies! Like a lot of early European colonies were headed up by financial entities rather than governments, and like Earth […]