Reach

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Reach

A prisoner, made immortal by science, is shot into space to track down a mysterious dead satellite.

Everyone knows space is a punishing void. We've named our whole science fiction endeavor after the practice of trying to make it livable. But what if—instead of trying to recreate what's natural on Earth—we modified ourselves instead? Call it homeostatic hacking. Like all technology, it could be liberating, or a new form of imprisonment. —The Eds