Ooh, I like the addition of the other side of the fence here. Feels very tense and intense, so nicely done on that count.

Argh! No notification from Ficly. It would’ve made my last few lectures much more bearable knowing I had a sequel to look forward to.

This is great. It does as all good science fiction should do – introduce novel extrapolations to drive narration forward and provide interesting and memorable settings.

Great exchange. Believable.

While skimming the story to abstract the info I wanted for my blog, I dismissed the helium-3 stuff as techno-babble. Tardily, I looked up helium-3. It is weird stuff that might indeed be useful in a future superconductor and fusion-based economy. And it is indeed more abundant in the regolith of an asteroid than on earth. JonB, I salute you. I just wish I’d done my homework before I started writing.

Mistype – is/it in the fourth paragraph.

Thanks for spotting HSAR – corrected.