About the Setting
SHIFTING REALITY is set in a space station orbiting Epsilon Eridani b. The planet, which my characters call Sarasvati, is a gas giant which I have given rings, and the station’s main industry is the harvest of ice from these rings for the production of water, oxygen and fuel. The station is one of four human settlements in that solar system, three of them mining stations. These four settlements survive as communities nearly independent from each other, and fully independent from Earth, 10.5 light-years away.
Epsilon Eridani is real, and the gas giant is real. The system is also known to contain a lot of dust or asteroids. No evidence exists for (or against!) the smaller planet in the system, called Anak in this book.
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