Kismet

The River: a hodgepodge of arcologies and platforms in a band around Ceres full of dreamers, utopians, corporatists-and transformed humans, from those with simple biomods to the exotic alien xenos and the totemics, remade with animal aspects. Gail Simmons, an itinerant salvor living aboard her ship Kismet, has docked everywhere totemics like her are welcome...and a few places they''re not.

But when...