A series · 5 books
The Cairn
by R. S. Breed, in reading order
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Book 1 · Start here
Who the Door Admits
The Cairn is a provisional thing: a relay at the edge of a damaged region of space, run by a compact of governments none of whom expect it to last, with eight thousand people living in sectors that were supposed to be te...
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Book 2
What First Call Buys
Four years on, the Cairn is a boom town — crowded, expensive, thrilling and unfair. It admitted everyone it promised to admit, could not house them, and bought the steel the only way it could: forty-year build-leases sol...
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Book 3
Who Gets to Answer
Eight years on, the Cairn is thirty-seven thousand people, twenty-three seated sectors and a representation panel that was invented as an expedient and never replaced. Then a survey hull puts a dock checker and his daugh...
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Book 4
Who Holds the Standard
The Cairn is forty thousand people at ninety-seven per cent of certified capacity, with a finished residential ring standing empty because a clause its own executive wrote has not been satisfied on its second path. The r...
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Book 5
What the Station Keeps
Twenty-four years after its founding, the Cairn is a hundred and ten thousand people — including an entire adult generation born aboard, who have never stood on a planet and never lived a year without the emergency autho...
