Brilliance runs in the Trung family. Among the preeminent scientists of the last two hundred years, their breakthroughs in quantum physics and engineering enabled humans to travel throughout the solar system without any medical ill effects, and to shorten trip lengths from decades or centuries to days or weeks instead.

Featured in two short stories, teenaged Kasey Trung defends her home (a tiny outpost orbiting the gargantuan planet) against murderous raiders, then fights to save the main colony and its millions of inhabitants from a cyberattack on the central computer.

Leah Trung, Kasey’s grandmother, takes the lead in another short story and fights to prevent an interplanetary war and an outbreak of a lethal system-wide pandemic.