"The sun balloons!" cried Grishkin, pointing toward the earth.\nKosmograd was above the coast of California now, clean shorelines, intensely green fi… - William Gibson

"The sun balloons!" cried Grishkin, pointing toward the earth.\nKosmograd was above the coast of California now, clean shorelines, intensely green fields, vast decaying cities whose names rang with a strange magic. High above a fleece of stratocumulus floated five solar balloons, mirrored geodesic spheres tethered by power lines.\n"And they say that people live in those things?"