Book I of Rosinante. Being Project Manager of Mundito Rosinante was never easy. To Charles Cantrell, it meant gaining the Union's co-operation, placating the financial backers, and solving a host of engineering crises that arise when building an agricultural and industrial complex in space. To make matters worse, economic and political decay reached from Earth clear out to the asteroids, leaving Cantrell in charge of a bankrupt, man-made world - and 10,000 unexpected exiles. Without warning, he and his staff - sophisticated robot Shaskash and management wizard Marian Yashon - had to turn necessity to invention and ingenuity to genius in a desperate effort to obtain food, weapons and political independence. Cantrell's new goal was no longer profits - simply survival! Cover art by Chris Barbieri.