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From: Tony Nance <tnusenet17@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) Taming the High Frontier
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:20:02 -0500
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On 2/13/25 5:14 PM, James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <volosc$332ar$1@dont-email.me>,
> Tony Nance  <tnusenet17@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> It suddenly occurs to me to wonder if Reynolds ever read Vinge's
> Heaven Belt stories.

I'm pretty sure he did...hang on...yeah, a quick google of
"alastair reynolds joan vinge" turns up some stuff, including
the following item from
https://revelationspace.fandom.com/wiki/Demarchists

" In the afterword of Galactic North, Alastair Reynolds comments that 
the Demarchists are not his own invention. He credits the Joan D. Vinge 
book The Outcasts of Heaven Belt as the inspiration for the Demarchist 
Society. "

Tony