Ellfive colony won its independence in the One-Day Trend, but while much could be forgiven, its debts haven’t been. The orbital nation needs a serious supply of minerals and ore to realize its making potentials, and in this solar program, the expense of lifting rocks to orbit is definitely prohibitive, the just viable option can be to mine them yourself. Therefore, Star Svensdotter leads a prospecting expedition to the Belt, almost two AUs out, on the sides of Earth’s colonization of space. It isn’t exactly unexplored territory-a motley assortment of grifters, drifters and fortune-hunters have previously produced the Belt their home-but Star and her staff soon find they have a lot to provide anarchic frontier culture, and that we now have richer possibilities than simply mining for minerals. The next in Dana Stabenow’s Star Svensdotter trilogy, A small number of Stars follows humanity’s outward migration into the solar system.