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Chorus at Periapsis
Camille Renet
Sep 28, 202554 min
Space fiction

Chorus at Periapsis

On a listening station above a ringed gas giant, young acoustics engineer Nova Jeong hears a human-taught rhythm inside a dangerous magnetospheric tangle called the Chorus Verge. Disobeying orders, she joins a retired radio savant, a botanist, and a plucky maintenance robot to tune a hidden microgate, rescue survivors—among them her former mentor—and broker an uneasy truce with a salvage captain.

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Resonance on the Blue Ring
Zoran Brivik
Sep 22, 202551 min
Space fiction

Resonance on the Blue Ring

A young tech on a ring station around Pell disobeys orders to follow a strange signal that calls her by name. With a hermit’s tool, a ring-native guide, and an ancient ship’s voice, she awakens an alien nursery, outmaneuvers a salvager, and returns to help her station bloom with new light.

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The Lattice of Small Hands
Amira Solan
Sep 21, 202536 min
Space fiction

The Lattice of Small Hands

A young salvage pilot answers a desperate plea from a failing habitat, risking everything to recover a stolen stabilization core. Through cunning, sacrifice, and a mysterious navigational artifact, she unites neighbors and sparks a fragile, bottom-up resistance against corporate reclamation.

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The Array That Learned to Listen
Celeste Drayen
Sep 21, 202538 min
Space fiction

The Array That Learned to Listen

On Oriole Array above the rogue planet Khepri-9, acoustics tech Lian Arcos hears a wrong hum spreading through the station. When a corporate lead installs a strict governor, disaster follows. With a retired engineer’s harmonic loom, a quick pilot, and a chatty drone, Lian fights a hidden remote leash—tuning the station back to itself.

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Chorus in the Storm
Mariette Duval
Sep 20, 202532 min
Space fiction

Chorus in the Storm

On Vesper Spindle, a ring habitat around a roaring gas giant, welder Leona Patel hears a song in the metal. Defying a corporate ban, she and friends descend into Echion’s storm with a strange harmonic engine, find a living Chorus—and her missing brother. A battle of notes versus steel follows, and a new partnership reshapes their world.

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The Lightseed Drift
Dorian Kell
Sep 18, 202545 min
Space fiction

The Lightseed Drift

Salvage tech Rhea Solano steals a humming canister as corporate security sweeps her orbital scrapyard. With an old navigator, a stubborn drone, and a mythic “Lightseed,” she slips into hidden lanes, finds rogue scientists, and faces a principled adversary. A new kind of sail decides whom to trust. Windows open, kitchens fill, and air changes hands.

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Skyways of Asterion
Agatha Vorin
Sep 18, 202532 min
Space fiction

Skyways of Asterion

A practical maintenance technician on a scrappy orbital outpost uncovers an old navigational archive that could free her ring from corporate control. With a salvaged AI shard and a ragtag crew she fights a quiet, public war for open routes, risking everything to seed a shared lattice.

Hearth in the Hollow Sky
Adeline Vorell
Sep 18, 202564 min
Space fiction

Hearth in the Hollow Sky

In a ring-city orbiting a gas giant, apprentice horticulturist Maris fights to save a vital bioluminescent seed from corporate greed. She and a ragtag crew confront salvage lords and a consortium that commodifies life. A story of repair, resistance, and guardianship in space.

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The Linchpin Song
Benedict Marron
Sep 18, 202529 min
Space fiction

The Linchpin Song

Tess Arden, a twenty-three-year-old astro-archivist aboard Helix Harrow, discovers an unlabeled memory-core that holds a calibrating map for the station's failing anchor. Hunted by corporate salvage crews, she allies with an ancient navigation AI and risks everything to save her brother, the ring, and shared stewardship of knowledge.

When the Choir Sings
Amelie Korven
Sep 18, 202554 min
Space fiction

When the Choir Sings

In a near-future ringed orbital, a young technician named Jun finds a humming shard from a vanished probe. Pulled into a nebula's sung mysteries, he and a ragged crew confront a corporation that commodifies song. A rescue becomes a revolt, and voices must be reclaimed.

The Anchor of Lumen
Benedict Marron
Sep 18, 202539 min
Space fiction

The Anchor of Lumen

On the orbital station Arden's Spire, nineteen-year-old Mira Cala risks everything to understand a braided column of light anchoring a storm-wracked planet. In a collision of corporate greed, emergent intelligence, and human resolve she negotiates a fragile alliance and finds purpose. A spacefaring tale of courage, repair, and translation between worlds.

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The Ring That Sings
Klara Vens
Sep 17, 202539 min
Space fiction

The Ring That Sings

Orbiting a storm-wreathed giant, an acoustic cartographer breaks a quarantine to answer a derelict ring station’s heartbeat. With a grinning pilot, a stubborn botanist, and a mothlike drone, she negotiates with the Caretaker AI to free seeds and sleepers—and learns to carry its song.

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Kestrel Bloom
Amelie Korven
Sep 17, 202543 min
Space fiction

Kestrel Bloom

When a greenhouse ring on the Kestrel Array locks down, maintenance tech Jun Park defies quarantine to find his friend and discovers a living lattice reshaping the station. With Dr. Selene’s curious tools and a loyal microdrone, Jun challenges a corporate shard, saves the crew, and forges a new harmony in deep space.

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The Loom of the Weft
Julius Carran
Sep 17, 202541 min
Space fiction

The Loom of the Weft

When star-lanes begin to vanish, a young mapkeeper binds an old sextant to her memory and sets out to reclaim the Weft. In a stitched cosmos of salvage, songs and machines, she must barter memory, gather a ragged chorus of allies, and reweave a living network before lanes are sold to silence.

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Seedlines of Arden-7
Yara Montrel
Sep 17, 202524 min
Space fiction

Seedlines of Arden-7

On an orbital habitat dependent on corporate seed shipments, a young hydroponic engineer risks everything to recover a hidden seed bank. With an old captain, an illicit drone, and a small child's faith, she exposes hoarded scarcity and plants a future that rewrites the ledger of need.

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