The Republic of MemoryThe Safina is a city ship, two hundred years into its voyage from the ruins of Earth towards a new habitable world. Its crew maintain the ship, generation after generation, while protecting their 'ancestors' the final remnants of Earth's doomed Network Empire by keeping them alive in cryostasis. But a lot can change in two hundred years, and people are starting to ask questions. Why should the crew continue to toil for people none of them remember?

of gurgling wet spaces and the sticky

with no holds barred - and I deserve to be able to tell it the way that I choose

She's seen a case like this before

carrying a pouch containing a mysterious coin

just wants out: out of her marriage

Why have they populated this planet with humanity's ancestors and dinosaurs

but who could imagine they would let their hearts take over at the most inopportune time--leading then far too deep into an increasingly troubling and dark maze

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was he ever there in the first place

Percennius Niger

Are she and Patch strong enough for the battle ahead