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Illustration for Karl Schroeder's story ""The Baker of Mars," showing an augmented-reality overlay on the Martian surface.

Mars

Section II: Mars She tumbled, landed on a knee and both hands. Her gloves broke through the duricrust. It felt like a layer of caked sand at the beach, only

Illustration for Carter Scholz's story "Vanguard 2.0." A spacecraft with a mechanical arm protruding from it, capturing a the tiny Vanguard orbiter.

Low Earth Orbit

Section I: Low Earth Orbit “But the General Assembly can’t be happy that you’ve given the first concession to an old South African weapons manufacturer!” Helmut shrugged. “Armscor has very

Cover for Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A collection of space Futures. Edited by Ed Finn and Joey Eschrich. Photo of the inside of a futuristic space station. A ship and planet can be seen outside the window.

Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures

That is utopia … especially for primitives and scientists, which is to say everybody. Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars You are reading the HTML version of Visions, Ventures, Escape Velocities: A Collection