Down to Dirt

Dirt is for losers.

It’s 2021, and humanity has been in space for half a century. Giant space stations are hubs of scientific and industrial research, colonies are spreading across the moon and Mars, and sixteen-year-old Mara Duval, born and raised on Tombaugh Station, is training to be part of humanity’s first mission to the moons of Jupiter.

Life is full of possibilities, opportunities denied those deemed unfit for life in space. The unintelligent, the diseased, the mentally unstable, and the criminal, all who have been rejected by the Space Service, are condemned to live their lives on dirt, a planet everyone knows but no one mentions. Every spacer has relatives on dirt, family members who failed to qualify for space. Some are remembered, some are forgotten; but all are left behind.

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