The Weaver of Silent Thunder In the year 2348, the storm-shielded city of N’Djamena Ascent rose from the shifting dunes of what had once been Lake Chad. It was no longer a lake, nor even a memory of water; it was…
The Keeper of Borrowed Moons
The Keeper of Borrowed Moons In the year 2237, the moons of Saturn had been renamed by those who now called them home. Titan was still Titan, but the smaller ones bore names drawn from forgotten languages: Ayao, Oshun, Yemọja, Oya….
The Drift Threshold
The Drift Threshold In 2059, the Heliopause Explorer Array—HEA-7 through HEA-12—crossed the 140 AU mark simultaneously. Six small spacecraft, each the size of a grand piano, had been launched in pairs over a decade earlier on solar-thermal sails augmented with high-specific-impulse…