In Other Worlds
by A. A. Attanasio | 
The Sky So Big And Black
by John Barnes | 
Ragamuffin
by Tobias S. Buckell | 
Red Limit Freeway
by John DeChancie | 
Starrigger
by John DeChancie | 
Rynosseros
by Terry Dowling | 
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 | 
Blackcollar: The Judas Solution
by Timothy Zahn |
Triplet
by Timothy Zahn | 
Seveneves
by Neal Stephenson | 
Constitution
by Nick Webb |
Liberation
by Ryk Brown |
Because of the deadly effect sphere, the only way into or out of the system containing the metal-rich Ring Mines of Solitaire is by performing a human sacrifice. Now every ship heading there carries two death-row felons. It's a bizarre, but effective method of execution--until it's discovered that one of the doomed criminals is an innocent man.