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In the 24th Century, human beings have discovered free energy, terraformed the planets, altered their own genetics, and developed a boundless love for spaceship racing. Top pilots are heroes, fawned over by billions. The average life expectancy of a pilot on the professional circuits is five years.
Samson Ford (pilot) and Ben Johnson (manager) are an outcast racing team whose knack for getting into trouble is only slightly superseded by their knack for winning. They wander the Solar System from circuit to circuit, betting on themselves, dodging gangsters, and continuing to expand outlandish reputations. When a mysterious woman named Stephanie enters their life, Samson and Ben are offered an exclusive sponsorship with one of Earth's largest corporations... and stumble into the center of a power struggle that will shape the future of humanity.
Pilots can have a run of luck, but they'll be dead soon. Buried in backwater racing holes if not obliterated in space. Their lives are short, lived at the edge of death. One wrong step, one collision. Collisions are inevitable. Samson Ford presses a small, wooden cross against his chest and feels how different he is from other pilots, and knows he is no different at all. He thinks of their color hued, cosmetically engineered skin and looks down at his own tanned brown hands. Of their too bright, sparkling eyes and how beautiful their women are. As if they weren't human. As if none of them were, not only the pilots. None of them believed in the god. He thinks of the woman he loves and wonders if she believes. The woman who is one of them, who has secrets, who is different.
He lays in his bunk on a small cargo carrier cruising slowly across the Solar System and stares through a ship's window at distant stars. When he closes his eyes he dreams of the Solar Regatta, the great race around the sun.
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