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"The system will not keep records of who sends for what; otherwise reading becomes a political act."

September 28, 2004

You should read Stephan's reproduction of A Few Notes On The Culture.

Added a section to the Colophon page explaining the style sheets I use.

"An idea of how the day-night cycle appears on the surface of an Orbital can be gained by taking an ordinary belt, buckling it so that it forms a circle, and putting your eye to the outside of one of the belt's holes; looking through the hole at a light bulb and slowly rotating the whole belt will give some idea of how a star appears to move across the sky when seen from an Orbital, though it will also leave you looking rather silly."

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