Escape Route

A novella originally appeared in Interzone, #121 July 1997. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection (1998), edited by Gardner Dozois, The Good New Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition (1999), edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Space Opera Renaissance (2006), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer. The story is included in the collection A Second Chance at Eden (1998).