Speaking of JR, what is his relationship to Mum?  Page 73, "He was the second  captain of that centuries old name that Mum had had the audacity to lay on him.  Captain James Robert Neihart: *Gaia's* first captain, the one to defy the EC and give ownership of the interstellar ships to the crews."  Mother? Grandmother? It must be some direct lineage, given the way names are held and bestowed.

On another note: for sheer fine writing, read the visit to the garden carefully.  There's an elegant inside out feeling of what it would be like for people who have lived on ships and stations all their lives to experience in some small way what a planetary environment would be like.  I found it interesting and magical, partiularly on the second and third reading.

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