I had forgotten that there are things called horizons. Queen is a great bubble: from Osman Tower, dust permitting, you can see all the way to the edge of the city in any direction. You see the whole of the world. On the surface, you are on the outside of a ball. And not a very big ball at that. I feel I'm about to fall over and slide away with every step. This is Queen turned inside out. There are no walls to the world.
- Ian McDonald, The Menace from Farside, p.60
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