In Matthew C. Lucas’s The Lost Lock, Yonder and Far had been banished to Doldrums. A punishment much like a slow death of the spirit for those so used to the vibrancy of the Grove. But there is hope for their return. A favorable word...

A forty-five-year-old gambler named Joey Mumbai gets into big trouble with a sectid mobster, Fat Okko. Joey owes him one million Determinations of Official Worth, or dows. Fat Okko finds out that Joey inherited Space Station Halcyon from his billionaire father. The sectid sees an...