When the first humans settled Giant, the atmoshields of the meager few initial platforms blocked out all weather, serving as hard shells that preserved oxygen and warmth and humidity at equally standard degrees. But while people can live like that— as proved by the spaceship- and space station–bound years before the platforms were ready in sufficient numbers—most don’t like to, and when the porous atmoshield was developed it quickly became popular and soon standard on most platforms, despite the inconveniences of wind, rain, tempests, and variable temperatures.

— The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older