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Illustrated by K. A. Teryna Marie Vibbert There should be a better way to ride a bike on Mars. Manuel peddled the stationary bike in his habitat, thinking how annoying it was. He loved cycling back on Earth, but here it was a drudgery tolerated, and worse, a reminder that he wasnāt moving forward. Inevitably, he brooded on Cyrian in the next habitat over, whose hybridization choices always seemed better, his regolith soil mixture superior, his plants taller. The bastard had been on the cover of Nature , damn it, for an experiment only a little different from Manuelās main