The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald Kingsbury

The American orbital transfer station offers employment to Byron
McDougall, a chance for Charlie Bond to search for an alternative
to MAD, and for Diana Osborne, escape from her violently abusive
father.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/what-would-little-boys-do
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In article <10cqpu4$3nl$1@reader2.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald Kingsbury

The American orbital transfer station offers employment to Byron
McDougall, a chance for Charlie Bond to search for an alternative
to MAD, and for Diana Osborne, escape from her violently abusive
father.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/what-would-little-boys-do

I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that this is in the
same continuity as _Courtship Rite_. Also, IIRC, this replaces "The
Ghost Town" (which I mentioned recently) when events made that obsolete,

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Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ?-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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In article <robertaw-4FF109.09520116102025@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <10cqpu4$3nl$1@reader2.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald Kingsbury

The American orbital transfer station offers employment to Byron
McDougall, a chance for Charlie Bond to search for an alternative
to MAD, and for Diana Osborne, escape from her violently abusive
father.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/what-would-little-boys-do

I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that this is in the
same continuity as _Courtship Rite_. Also, IIRC, this replaces "The
Ghost Town" (which I mentioned recently) when events made that obsolete,

I guess it's not impossible for this to be in the same universe as
Courtship Rite, but since the two are divided by a vast space of
space and time, the connection would be rather academic.

I thought Courtship Rite was in the same setting as Shipwright and
the never-finished Finger Pointing Solward but I am not sure where
I picked that up.
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A reader liked this quotation:

"I used to like Americans," said Byron with amused savagery. "I'm
an American. It used to feel great to go to them and say, 'Here's
a solution to a problem that hasn't happened yet.' So how do they
react? They sniff daisies and snort coke. And think they are smart
asses; even my son. Zimmerman, if an American jumps out of an airplane,
you can't sell him a parachute until after he hits the ground. I don't
even flap about it anymore. Americans are manic freaks who slack off suicidally between crises and then work their elbows to a bone to
meet a crisis after it has bashed them in the face--all the time
bitching bitterly that no one ever told them the fist was on the way."
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In article <10crep7$17p$1@reader2.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

In article <robertaw-4FF109.09520116102025@news.individual.net>,
Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com> wrote:

In article <10cqpu4$3nl$1@reader2.panix.com>,
jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

The Moon Goddess and the Son by Donald Kingsbury

The American orbital transfer station offers employment to Byron
McDougall, a chance for Charlie Bond to search for an alternative
to MAD, and for Diana Osborne, escape from her violently abusive
father.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/what-would-little-boys-do

I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that this is in the
same continuity as _Courtship Rite_. Also, IIRC, this replaces "The
Ghost Town" (which I mentioned recently) when events made that obsolete,

I guess it's not impossible for this to be in the same universe as
Courtship Rite, but since the two are divided by a vast space of
space and time, the connection would be rather academic.

I thought Courtship Rite was in the same setting as Shipwright and
the never-finished Finger Pointing Solward but I am not sure where
I picked that up.

I think that is mentioned in the afterword of _Courtship Rite_ (at least
in the Timescape books edition).

--
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_. ?-----------------------------------------------------
Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com

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