The third novel in von Schlegell''s System Series, set among the water-rich moons of planet Uranus, during Earth''s full collapse.Was there some sort of accident? The Doll was now certain that the Japanese didn''t consider him a human. He was concerned with Deary alone. Her flukes lifted to maintain her treading water, left her pale bottom and sex exposed. Was he watching simultaneously from below? The Doll let his tendrils obscure. 5 hours till orbital synch, he remembered. The Doll called up the red-screen into his mindspace and traced the instantly visible tags: Mab''s Buoy relay SFS Good Fortune, Wawagawanet 2145270401:33
—from Sundogz
Beginning with Venusia (2005) and continuing with Mercury Station (2009), Mark von Schlegell''s System Series has moved backward in time, investigating the contours of time, memory, perception, and control in the inter-planetary system that emerge off-world in the twenty-second and twenty-third centuries
