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On the damaged colony ship Strelka, limping toward the sanctuary of a nearby planet, Yuka and the other surviving colonists--even the children--struggle to keep the ship moving. They pilot remote rovers on the planet's inhospitable surface, searching for a region where they might have a chance at survival.

But tensions on the ship are high, and the few left uninjured in the disaster--the Fulls--hold themselves separate from the many who survived, but not intact. When Yuka's remote rover en...