It’s Jaye’s 21st birthday, but since she was raised on Mars, it passes just like every other day: harvesting mushrooms from the grow room, tending her fellow Trueborn Children of Mars, and stalking her murderous, neurotypical father. Until a message comes from Earth–an Earth they thought was lifeless. Apparently one man still draws breath, and […]

Greg is a divorced dad who spends most of his time out on the golf course. He and his playing partners at Corona Vista Country Club get drunk and gamble every day after work. But Greg’s foreign girlfriend Karla—who happens to be half his age—also demands plenty of attention. Frustrated with his job and still […]

Everything ends at Beacon. Everything falls. Now Tersias and Mally have a chance to change that–if they can survive. What should be wondrous news has rocked the fleet, sparking suspicion and acts of desperation. Against a backdrop of escalating tension in the orbital layers, Mally contends with the growing jealousy of a barren people, while […]

In the spring of 2011, Mai Martin, a restless American woman, married without children, takes an English-language-expert job at a fictional university in Beijing, leaving her husband of twenty years behind in Northern California. He is unusually supportive, but then, he has mostives of his own. When she discovers that her computer is being monitored […]