As scientific progress allows it, exploration and migration begins to reach for the stars, starting with the closest worlds. Statistically speaking, these are mostly barren deserts, with no natural way to survive. But humans and their descendants are a persistent and determined peoples. They will mould these worlds to their needs, and if that won't work, they’ll modify themselves. As these colonies and outposts expand and develop, will their history mirror that of Earth’s earlier days? Will the same defects that riddled our homeworld doom them to failure, or like us, will they rise from the ashes, and move forward stronger than ever? Each one has its own purpose, with colonists who have different ideas about what they want out of their new lives. But as they’ll find, escaping their past is not as easy as it seems, and the wisest amongst them may come to learn that this might not be such a bad thing. None of these planets is Earth, but that doesn’t mean they can’t carve out a little slice of happiness, and who knows? Maybe there are things that they can teach the Earthans they left behind.
On the colony world Proxima Doma, Étude and Vitalie restart the “Savior program”. They secretly protect the colonists, but a disaster forces them to create duplicates of themselves, complicating their mission. And there may be more at stake than they ever realized...
Stranded on a colony world, Brooke and Sharice Prieto are recruited by the AI Mirage to help terraform the world in only eighteen years. They discover that the project is a race to prepare the planet for 10,000 refugees from 1815. Saving them without destroying their worldview will be a delicate process...
Operating out of a nearby star without a planet, Team Keshida prepares to launch a number of megaprojects that will make major paradigm shifts to all peoples of the galaxy. The biggest one is Project Stargate, which is a mission to send probes and quantum terminals to every star in the Milky Way...
Time travelers from all over the timeline gather for the memorial service for one of their own. The service is taking place on a planet millions of light years from Earth, and for many, reaching the planet will be harder than saying goodbye, and may set them up for a future they never expected...
After the memorial service, Hokusai Gimura and her friends return to Varkas Reflex to find that twenty-four years have passed, and her technology has been stolen. She and her team must navigate the situation carefully as they try to regain control, and make sure that her innovations don’t fall into the wrong hands...
Trinity Turner and Ellie Underhill consider the next chapter of their lives. They are joined by Thor, who was given a perfect new body by the amoral Tamerlane Pryce, and Pryce's daughter, Abigail. Together, they make plans to challenge everything anyone ever thought they knew about death...
Friends and lovers, Hogarth and Hilde travel to 25th-century Glisnia to find the planet has been replaced by a “matrioshka brain” run by mechs. They agree to help the mechs build a colossal matrioshka body. Despite the seeming impossibility of the task, it may prove to be far simpler than it sounds...
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