A Handful of Stars Audiobook (Free)

Ellfive colony won its independence in the One-Day Trend, but while much may be forgiven, its debts haven’t been. The orbital nation needs a significant supply of nutrients and ore to realize its manufacturing potentials, and in this solar program, the cost of lifting rocks to orbit is usually prohibitive, the only viable option is to mine them yourself. And so, Star Svensdotter leads a prospecting expedition towards the Belt, nearly two AUs out, on the very sides of Earth’s colonization of space. It isn’t precisely unexplored territory-a motley range of grifters, drifters and fortune-hunters have previously made the Belt their home-but Superstar and her team soon find that they have too much to provide anarchic frontier culture, and that there are richer opportunities than simply mining for nutrients. The second in Dana Stabenow’s Superstar Svensdotter trilogy, A small number of Stars follows humanity’s outward migration into the solar system.