Spacing to Byzantium: Travels in the Orion Colonies was a book that told of E. D. Fitzgerald's travels through the Orion Colonies, particularly at one unnamed Colony (excerpts neglect to say which). He wrote of scenes of Orion life and expressed his surprise at Orion culture and its hidden depths. Fitzgerald saw an Orion city; rather than slave hovels around grand mansions, there were tidy, modest communities with plenty of parks and gardens, with no sign of poverty. He met contented Orion slaves who were proud of the families that owned them, such as the Glachies and the Yungots.