Re: (ReacTor) Taming the High Frontier

On 2/5/25 10:19 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Taming the High Frontier: Five Works Featuring Space Colonies
  From Babylon 5 to RPGs, everybody loves space colonies!
 https://reactormag.com/taming-the-high-frontier-five-works-featuring-space-colonies/

Neat collection of examples! I have the O'Neill, and I have both leafed through it and read certain sections; but I can't say that I've read the whole thing.
Babylon 5 remains one of my favorite shows, though I am nervous about re-watching for fear that the Suck Fairy will commandeer the experience.
I thought of Banks' Orbitals from his Culture books, and Reynolds' Glitter Band from his Revelation Space universe. Of course, some of your commenters thought of these as well.
I haven't read it in a good while, but I'm thinking Leiber's Ship of Shadows would fit here.
Neither here nor there:
Babylon 5 is the reason I ended up reading & participating here in rasfw. Shortly before the B5 pilot aired[1], a friend of mine told me about these things called "newsgroups", and that the creator of Babylon 5 was actually on a few of them talking about the show (and other things). I discovered many of the posters on the B5 group(s) were on this group, and I eventually joined it myself.
Tony
[1] Per wikipedia, February 22, 1993, which boggles my mind. Sheesh.