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

John Varley,

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

of Iain M. Banks.

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

Read Schismatrix if you haven’t already done so: it will melt your face.

Larry Niven’s ‘Known Space’

Michael Swanwick’s Vacuum Flowers.

John Harrison’s The Centauri Device,