With humanity ready to escape the Solar System, there is plenty of opportunity for explorers and people wanting a better lifestyle than the overcrowded slums of Earth. But despite all the magic of twenty second century technology, things can go wrong and there are those who don't want the project to succeed. Far distant from the technological safety net of Earth, it's up to the abilities and strengths of the colonists to rise to the situation. Given that the stories were written in twenty nineteen, some of the stories were scarily prescient. ( )