Geoff and his friends live in Phocaea, a distant asteroid colony on
the Solar System's frontier. They're your basic high-spirited young
adults, enjoying such pastimes as hacking matter compilers to produce
dancing skeletons that prance through the low-gee communal areas,
using their rocket-bikes to salvage methane ice shrapnel that flies
away when the colony brings in a big (and vital) rock of the stuff,
and figuring out how to avoid the ubiquitous surveillance motes that
are the million eyes of 'Stroiders, a reality-TV show whose Earthside
producers have paid handsomely for the privilege of spying on every
detail of the Phocaeans' lives.

Life isn't as good as it seems, though. A mysterious act of sabotage
kills Geoff's brother Carl and puts the entire colony at risk. And in
short order, we discover that the whole thing may have been cooked up
by the Martian mafia, as a means of executing a coup and turning
Phocaea into a client-state. As if that wasn't bad enough,...


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