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…

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….