Author name: Victoria Strauss

* Philip K. Dick Award Winner * Best of the Year: Locus, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Magazine *

Once the world worked differently — before the Silence from space quieted the airwaves and rendered electronics useless.Once there was

A rich Komarran merchant fleet has been impounded at Graf Station, in distant Quaddiespace, after a bloody incident on the

The universe has been explored–and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent life. Then an alien satellite

In the near future, disease will be a condition of the past. Most genetic defects will be removed at birth;