Chapter 3: Hollow ManUnlike cities on Terra, with their numerous streets and buildings, Eden was one huge, enclosed entity. From a distance it looked like glass towers rising to the sky, but once we moved in, we realized it was made of some unknown material. Lights came on automatically when people entered rooms, turning the clear walls opaque; they came on at dusk and turned off when people went to bed or at dawn if it turned out they were burning the midnight oil.
Another puzzlement was that the city was not only dust free, but vermin free as well. Whoever had built it had created a miracle of engineering. Transporters similar to the elevator-like conveyances we had on Terra, took us up to the soaring towers or down to subbasements that just went down and down. There were even devices s
