1. What is the difference between being alone and being lonely?

2. Do morals and ethics change, whether one lives in isolation or in a community? If so, in what way?

3. Why do people colonize new places?

Why have these eighty settlers come to the planet Isis?

4. What is one major difference between the colonization of Isis and the colonization of North America by Europeans?

5. By what standards has Olwen lived in wealth all her life?

6. What changes in living standards have the settlers taken on by coming to Isis?

Are these positive or negative?

7. Is the planet Isis a place you would enjoy visiting? Would you want to live there? What impresses you most about it?

8. What sort of changes has Guardian made in Olwen? Does this affect who she is?

9. How much variety is there among the colonists? Are they tolerant of differences among...