Brenda Cooper's first science fiction only collection treats readers to human stories about the future. Meet a physicist who searches across timelines in a desperate attempt to travel across them herself, a young woman who tries to recover the magic of a trip on a river with her grandfather, a young couple who suspect their neighbor child is being raised by robots and many moree. This capable collection of hard SF stories focuses squarely on worldbuilding, from the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. to the far reaches of space.