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Desmond caught me looking at him. He grinned and winked. ‘What’s the matter? Have you never seen a grown man chestfeeding his newborn baby before?’

‘This is a message for the Mars Early Nuclear and Construction Expedition.’
The MENaCE, that’s us. Dear Lord, what an awful name. What moron came up with that hideous backronym?

'Democracy relies on opposition – otherwise it’s just tyranny of the majority.’

'Rosa and I were enjoying an afternoon off, sitting in the White Hart. I thought back to the day we’d met, in London at interviews for top secret jobs. And now, here we were. An asexual autistic physicist and a polyamorous lesbian plumber. On Mars.'

I grinned. ‘It surprises you to learn I’m Muslim?’
They both nodded again.
'What? You don’t think a black American lesbian can be Muslim?’

'We can have fully automated luxury gay space communism when we find a supply of unlimited resources – until then, we’ll have to make do with partially automated queer social liberalism.'