The universe is full of life but we’re the aberration ( Read more... )

There’s a gas giant named Zeus in the Organa cluster that is so big that even its moons have moons. These mini-moons are called moonlets. There are 45 moons and over three hundred moonlets. It makes for very complicated diplomacy ( Read more... )

“Okay, they’re coming! They’re coming! Quick hide! Oh man this is going to be great ( Read more... )

The thing about the planet Kuroshka was that it had seventeen centers all orbiting each other. It was several times the size of Jupiter but had managed to solidify anyway. The centers had formed their own molten-core solar system deep under the crust. All these different cores spinning around each other inside the planet created gravity storms ( Read more... )

Night fights ( Read more... )

Technically, there were still two sexes ( Read more... )

The different races on the planet could agree on one central tenet of colonization. Life is a forge ( Read more... )

The cryosleep tube was frosted over with delicate crystals, framing Angela’s face in a wintry Sleeping Beauty repose ( Read more... )

It started, as these things always do, with a kiss ( Read more... )

The Broodmaster General was in charge of clone registration and renegade tracking. He was starting to see his fellow humans as mold. Give them anywhere dormant, wet and humid and humans started growing, building, excavating, and spreading. Embryo farms, baby jars, splice mixers, and nurseries popped out fresh rows of humans read to start ( Read more... )