Through the Midnight (and Epilogue)
I could hole up there until somebody comes to bail us out... once offworld traffic resumes i could disappear, i think._ "max? you there?" _bail us out, eh? but who would do that?_ "what do the scouts say?"
Only Caught Once
There's enough civilization nearby, and unsettled forests, for them to find a way to live or get offworld." â â â â â "what's the price you're getting for this job?"
Broke for the Land of Nod
Alta didn't expressly organize donations; sympathetic offworlders did, though, and when they earmarked money for the colony's defense it came to her. "the colony budget would cover half of this figure?" kodja's kept staring at the number.
Titan
With earth's population reduced to a few million, there were - by the latest estimates - only fifty thousand people living offworld, and over half of those were in lunar alpha, the city on earth's moon established by the united nations nearly two hundred
The Zoo: The story so far (incomplete, but probably worth it)
According to the stories, a group of offworld smugglers dumped an enormous payload of the drug "nebula" while running from solfed investigators that had followed them to lupercal - an independent world.
Obsolete Weapons
"we could, but they drive up the prices by the landing platforms to make a bigger profit from the offworlders. it's cheaper to go into the city and shop where the locals shop, if you've got a shuttle that can get you there easily like we do." "ah.
New World, Part one: The bow is drawn
He felt a slight shudder and a slight sideways movement, meaning the m'kereos was in flight and headed offworld and the compensators weren't working yet because they were still in the gravity field of the planet called home.