Sequel to Beneath the Enormous Sky and If He Should Not Sing, though theoretically readable stand-alone.

Unethical experimentation is a theme in this piece. There's no graphic depictions of it, just suggestions, but consider yourself warned.

Karen Tracy met an unfortunate end in TOS' Wolf in the Fold, but this is the AOS, so as far as I am concerned she lives on.

I remain largely ignorant of the mechanics of astrophysics and astronomy, and am only having fun.