Galactic North

Larry Niven’s ‘Known Space’

Nightingale if that positional fix were to break down. ‘Check

John Harrison’s The Centauri Device,

Michael Swanwick’s Vacuum Flowers.

Joan D. Vinge wrote about a demarchist society in her enjoyable pacey novel The Outcasts of Heaven Belt.

to Samuel R. Delaney’s seminal Nova.

Gregory Benford, especially his ‘Galactic Centre’ sequence, beginning with In the Ocean of Night and Across the Sea of Suns.

‘Eight Worlds’ stories before writing Steel Beach.

Marshall T. Savage’s book The Millennial Project, which