Story 0: The SettlementThus I have heard. Long ago, the First Sister lived in the star system Meropis, thirty-six lightyears from Achenar. The First Sister was a follower of Her Radiance, and one day Her Radiance gathered Her followers and the First Sister and said, "Providence no longer bears fruit for us. We must set
The Flight of the Planetary Dream Collector1984 BC – Mesopotamian Marshes (Iran-Iraq Border Region), Earth One clear night, a farmer and his daughter stepped out of their hut in the vast eastern marshes, to pray beneath the stars. The girl looked up and pointed, and called out to her father. He set down the mat he was carrying and looked up
