Status Updates From Extranjeros en el universo

Shadow Show is about an isolated research team of nine people who use an unique entertainment system to keep from going stir crazy which is thrown into flux when one of their group dies. Worst story in the collection.

Fence is about a man living in a post scarcity future where Personal Satisfaction is rated who finds his rating going down.

Retrograde Evolution is about a trading ship that arrives at a planet to find its people have regressed from a technological civilization to a primitive one.

The Answers is about an expedition that finds remnants of a lost strain of humans that once dominated the universe.

Beachhead is about an organization that has perfected the art of planetary colonization down to the last detail, or so they believe.

Mirage is about an archeologist on Mars who gets abandoned by his guides and finds himself at the mercy of seven-sexed Martians.

Here's Simak using they/them for a member of a seven-sexed alien species in 1951.

Target Generation is about a generation ship whose people have forgotten that they are on a generation ship.