No World Left Behind

Forty light years from Earth, two Stone Age tribes wage territorial war. One planet away, two exonauts collect specimens from the surface of a new and exotic world.

Centuries after a conspiracy aboard the ITS Santa Maria usurped the Admiralty in favor of Theresa Danbury and her cabal, mankind has formed a burgeoning enclave on tidally locked Trappist-1e. This is the world humanity chose for its new Eden, so welcoming to our species that from one colonial expedition, two societies emerged.

One society is the futuristic dream of a jaded ideologue made manifest. The other is a primitive memory of tribes and caves and stone. They are divided as much by their new world’s vast equatorial mountain range as they are by culture and wealth, but not forever, and not for long.