with a working and not-too-leaky ship seemed a better plan than trusting an old corroded Earth-to-Mars transmat station. "Captain?" I asked at a pool bar up the street. She looked

He had hoped to catch The Beholder at the node 437 smoothie bar, but he unloaded on Muroise anyway. "I really just want a beautiful and decent young guy who will never change, but

saffron, goose-down, and a hint of an electrical socket for which he luckily had no adapter. Wordlessly, Agent Flint petted a handsome young monk, then tuned into the Noumenon,

Jericho Eridani Radiomind thrashed about and resisted the medical assistants. "So what about Trump and the Ellisons? How about the centenary of Grandpa's

"Things break down over time," thought Jezikara of Mars, her canal skiff grounded, most of her clientele gone, and some golden bozo of Earth not even threatening her with tariffs.