The Midwife of Forgotten Constellations In the year 2321, the generation ship Mansa’s Breath had been sailing for seven generations toward Gliese 667 Cc. No one alive had seen Earth, only the stories carried in the ship’s living archive: holographic griots…

The Keeper of the Unwritten Stars In the year 2294, the city of Djenné-Neuf drifted in the upper troposphere of Venus, held aloft by fields of superconducting helium and vast translucent wings of aerogel dyed the color of old terracotta. Its…

The Cartographer of Lost Names In the year 2251, the Great Diaspora Archive orbited at the trailing Lagrangian point of Jupiter and its largest irregular moon, Himalia. It was not a station of steel and glass, but a living spheroid of…