Jessica Abel

Patricia "Trish Trash" Nupindju is a talented young hoverderby player on Mars 200 years in the future. Trish wants desperately to go pro because it seems like the only way to escape a future of poverty and hard labor on her family's moisture farm in Candor Chasma. But even if she could make the team, she's too young to get a contract, and her family is going broke faster than her escape velocity.

"The Terror Novas hoverderby team might be champions on the rink, but in the outback, the players are still just Marty Dusters like everyone else, stuck deep in generational debt and indenturement, constantly at risk of being sent off-world to dangerous work assignments by AREX. That is, until their superfan and "skategirl" Trish Nupindju shared with them the secret she learned from the indigenous Martian, Qiqi, that will let anyone, anywhere, harvest...