Series
Orbitsville
Bob Shaw · 3 novels · 1975–1990
Bob Shaw's trilogy opens with the discovery of Orbitsville, a Dyson-sphere-like megastructure enclosing a star and offering more habitable inner surface than all of Earth's history could use, prompting a slow-motion exodus from a crowded, exhausted homeworld. Orbitsville Departure and Orbitsville Judgement widen into the political fallout and the deeper mystery of who built the sphere and why. It is hard SF organized around the sheer, incomprehensible scale of its central artifact rather than character-driven drama.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
Orbitsville at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 1970s1
- 1980s1
- 1990s1
Shape
3 novels
1 author · completed series
reads like:science fictionrevengeother star systemsfar futuremysteriousadult
Mood
This series sits where the catalog sits — its mood is the corpus average.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book3 of 3 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- Orbitsville Departuredarkest
- Orbitsville Judgementbrightest · most intense
- Orbitsvillecalmest