Joan Slonczewski's Frontera 3d

[james_davis_nicoll]

Why do so many space colonies look like a pocket universe version of Ohio?

Comments

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

... that's some low population colony. Looks like they took five miles of a rural county highway and put it into a hoop.

[kithrup.livejournal.com]

As I said, it looked even smaller than that to me. Depending on the size of the buildings, I guess, I thought it was only a mile or so around.

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

Yes; looking up, the end caps look to be only about a kilometer apart. The sign says 'Mount Giliad 3km' and there's a popup that says Mount Giliad directly overhead (if you click, you can see from the antipodal point). So the interior is 6000m around, or about 1900m diameter. Pretty tiny as these things go.

And at either end of the half-circle road, there's the same little white church...