Reception
Orion's Arm has been reviewed in the role-playing magazine Knights of the Dinner Table, as well as on Boing Boing by transhumanist science fiction author Cory Doctorow
References to the Encyclopaedia Galactica have been made in a book on overcoming Librarian stereotypes.
The Orion's Arm website has also been recommended in a children's teaching guide.
The Orion's Arm perspective on wormholes has been discussed in various science fiction forums outside the group's own mailing lists, including mention on hardsf.org and discussion in a paper from UC Davis.
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