Poor Man's Sky

THE LUNAR MONASTERY TAUGHT PEOPLE HOW TO LIVE IN SPACE . . . AND THEN ONE OF ITS STUDENTS WAS MURDERED

Who owns the future?

Homicide detective Raimy Vaught is a losing contestant on the biggest reality show ever: the colonization of Mars. Brother Michael is a Benedictine monk who just wants to help the future happen. Andrei Bykhovski is an asteroid miner desperately escaping indentured servitude. Bridget Tobin is a hydroponic farmer studying the greenhouses of Luna.

But when a fellow Mars contestant drops dead at a Lunar monastery, these four souls will find themselves on a collision course with forces far beyond the control of trillionaires or nation states. As labor disputes erupt across cislunar space, the actions of individual people will determine whose future will prevail . . . and whose will perish.

Cover Art by Dave Seeley

Paperback

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, January 2023

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-9821-9234-1
eISBN: 978-1-62579-895-4

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Poor Man's Sky

ISBN-13: 978-1-9821-9234-1eISBN: 978-1-62579-895-4

ISBN-13: 978-1-9821-9234-1
eISBN: 978-1-62579-895-4