Mars was terraformed, and the biotech engineers could walk on Luna without breathing gear. Earth had three moons and hundreds of orbiting habitats in the Clusters. The great Terraforming Project was hitting its stride, but there were conflicts over which nations would get favored colonization sites on Luna and the antitechnology Three Sins cult was demanding that it all stop. But what disturbed Dr. Bet Nomad, circuit doctor for many of the minor habitats in the Clusters was a simple cough that seemed to be found every place she visited. The more she learned, using banned genetic...

Joshua was born a Free U'tanse, one of the few humans not under the claw of the Cerik who ruled the poisonous planet Ko. But after the rescue of the abandoned people of Rikna, it became his job to keep the existence of the refugees secret--putting him at odds with people who couldn't realize that a single stray thought was deadly on a world where telepaths were everywhere.

The U'tanse branch of the Project Saga reveals the struggles of a psychically gifted splinter of humanity, making their way on a world that could never be their own.