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Wide Sky

Wide Sky

2312

The road has never been opened. A human voice is already waiting at the other end.

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Wide Sky

The Widened Road

2313–14

The road is open. The evidence is getting worse.

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Wide Sky

The Closing Sky

2316

The science is settled. The road is rationed. Thousands of lives are waiting on the wrong side.

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Spent Light

Dead Reckoning

2240

A standalone first-command thriller: a survey ship cut off from home, command in the wrong hands, and a long way back by dead reckoning.

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Spent Light

The Wrong Side

2241 – 2242

The war was the lie. The cost is real. The chair comes at a price.

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Spent Light

Opening the Span

2242 – 2245

A door home. A pursuit begins. The largest wound.

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The Long Watch

Shakedown

2192 – 2193

A new captain. A first command. A vessel that refuses every protocol.

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The Long Watch

The Deep Edge

2195 – 2196

The best ship in the fleet finds something the Architects left behind.

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The Long Watch

The Deep Frontier

2200 – 2201

Junction-23 is the trap they cannot break. The ship will not survive.

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The Long Watch

The Ruins

2204

Two artefacts dated sixty years in the future. Same story. Different senders.

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The Long Watch

First Contact

2220

The deep frontier's last watch. The fleet that answers is not human.

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The Drift

Cohort

2138 – 2140

Cohort 12 will graduate. Solvei Bjørnstad will not.

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The Drift

First Run

2142

The cabin came back. The officer did not.

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The Drift

Running Dark

2147 – 2148

The site reads artificial. Someone has to decide what stays.

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The Drift

Bright Horizon

2155

Not breaking the silence. Breaking it the right way.

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The Drift

The Long Light

2172 – 2180

The first deliberate first-contact mission.

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The Outer Run

The Long Charter

2151 – 2152

A commercial route. An instrumented anomaly.

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Bergen Limit Coming Soon

The Outer Run

Bergen Limit

2154

The institution acknowledges what it cannot ignore.

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The Reach

The Wrong Number

2240

An armed explorer follows an empty tug into a frontier cargo corridor — and finds living people hidden inside a stolen freight stream.

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The Reach

The Guttering Light

2241

A frontier station is sabotaged, the blame lands on the Anchorage, and the captain sent to enforce the crackdown finds a true crime wrapped inside a manufactured one.

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The Reach

The Burning Lanes

2242–45

A joint goodwill expedition opens a great road in peace — and proves, in public and beyond doubt, exactly how much it is worth taking by force. The cold war draws its first blood.

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The Reach

The Doorstep

2245

The cold war goes hot along the lanes the expedition opened — and a ship five years lost falls home with proof that the real war is only beginning, on the far side of a door nobody knew they were standing on.

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The Reach

The Dimming

2245

Humanity finally became worth saving. The universe does not care. The line holds — and then the line is not enough.

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The Silence

The Signal

2047

She received the signal. The question was what to do with it.

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The Silence

The Quiet Mathematics

2050

The signal keeps arriving. The mathematics does not lie.

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The Silence

The Long Silence

2071

A door. A crossing. The longest silence there is.

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The Cairn

Who the Door Admits

2318

Admitting the ship, its people and its altered cargo is one decision — and the Cairn was never built to make it.

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The Cairn

What First Call Buys

2322

Nobody starves. Everybody is squeezed.

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The Cairn

Who Gets to Answer

2330

A family comes home having lived years no one else shared — and the Cairn discovers it never built the office that could say who they are.

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The Cairn

Who Holds the Standard

2334

Four minutes of sabotage at the throat, one serviceable chain, and a corridor with a finite number of hours in it.

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The Cairn

What the Station Keeps

2342

The Cairn can keep its own sky lit — if the cost falls on somebody else's.

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The Far Roads

The Way Out Closes

2334

The road out of Threap is gone. The people are still there.

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The Far Roads

The Road Called Good

2336

Mireth is a world built vertically. So is the rescue.

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The Far Roads

Inside the Window

2342

The destination is known. The road to it isn't.

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The Far Roads

The Last Cache

2342

The stolen gear isn't hidden. It's keeping other people alive.

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The Chosen Dark

The Surveyors

2348

They read everything. They explained nothing.

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The Chosen Dark

Terminal Black

2349

The forecast stops being a forecast.

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The Chosen Dark

One Road Out

2349

A way out that only works once is not a plan. It is a choice about who goes.

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Closed Sky

The Firing Order

2350

The route was certified. The stars disagreed.

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Closed Sky

Keller's Field

2350–2351

The farm looks ordinary. The numbers do not.

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Closed Sky

The Defensible Route

2352

There is a safer road. Nobody can prove it.

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Closed Sky

Missing, Presumed

2353

A ship can be gone without anyone seeing it leave.

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Closed Sky

The Last Manifest

2354

The last load is not just cargo.

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The Long Going

Wrong Sky

2353

The future arrived with a weapon. Winter came first.

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The Long Going

Nothing Given

2353

Warmth can be measured. Ownership cannot.

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The Long Going

What Stone Keeps

2353

A home can survive a winter. History is harder.

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The Working Sky

Not in My Lifetime

2325

The sky has centuries. The timetable does not.

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The Working Sky

Muster

c. 2330s

The drill ends. The work does not.

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The Working Sky

Notice of Intent

2296

There is a form for almost everything.

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The Working Sky

Time Served

c. 2326

Thirty-one years. Nine junctions. Then two.

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The Working Sky

Mercer & Son

c. 2263

People wanted to see them before they went.

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The Working Sky

To Code

2255

Some things are worth bringing into compliance.

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The Working Sky

Washing Day

c. 2340

For nine minutes, an ordinary morning survived three hundred years.

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The Working Sky

The Empty Leg

c. 2330s

The rule was right. The arithmetic was right.

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The Working Sky

Set Fair

2247

Everything else was being taken.

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The Working Sky

The Second Verse

2266

You can add to the song. You cannot take anything out.

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The Working Sky

The Yoke

2241–2402

You hung a wooden nothing under the sky and it made people brave.

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