Ganam. Sweet Today: a big, tall, heavy, Hainish woman in her late fifties, with a slow and comfortable voice. She asked to be Grandmother to Rig, Asten, and Betton, and was accepted. As Hainish is the lingua franca of the crew she is the comptroller of the ship. Tai: Parent of Betton. From Terra. Does not like to be touched. Lidi: A Terran; seventy-two Earth-years old and not interested in grandmothering. Lidi had been navigating for fifty years, and there is nothing she doesn't know about NAFAL (nearly as fast as light) ships, although occasionally she forgets that their ship is the Shoby and calls it the Soso or the Alterra. She has spent her career staying away from Terra. References Notes Bibliography Science fiction short stories Short stories by Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle 1994 short stories