In Other Worlds
by A. A. Attanasio | 
Ragamuffin
by Tobias S. Buckell | 
Red Limit Freeway
by John DeChancie | 
Starrigger
by John DeChancie | 
The January Dancer
by Michael Flynn | 
Dark Universe
by Daniel F. Galouye | 
Nightside City
by Lawrence Watt-Evans | 
Pilgrimage to Earth
by Robert Sheckley | 
Between the Strokes of Night
by Charles Sheffield | 
Proteus in the Underworld
by Charles Sheffield | 
Code of Conduct
by Kristine Smith | 
Singularity's Ring
by Paul Melko | 
The Sunless Countries
by Karl Schroeder | 
Ashes of Candesce
by Karl Schroeder | 
Runner
by William C. Dietz | 
Orbital Resonance
by John Barnes | 
Kaleidoscope Century
by John Barnes | 
An Ocean Is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away
by John Barnes | 
A Million Open Doors
by John Barnes | 
Patton's Spaceship
by John Barnes |
At the end of the twenty-first century, Earth is under the control of a single intelligence, the apparently benign One True. Mars, meanwhile, is slowly terraforming, and the human settlers there are still free of One True's control...but they need a pressure suits to survive outside, and it will be a century or more before the planet's fit for terrestrial life. Terpsichore Murray is growing up on Mars. She wants to quit school and become, like her father, an ecoprospector. He has other ideas: he wants her to stay in school. He does want her along on his next long trip but only to conduct a group of younger kids from the highlands at Mars's equator back to school in Wells City. What happens next will change Terpsichore, will change Mars, and will open the door to a new chapter in the history of intelligent beings in the solar system . . . all of them.