Man has brought Earth to the brink of ruin. Humanity has taken its first baby step into the cosmos, building a fleet of space stations in high Earth orbit. When she was five years old, Tasneem Kyoh was among the first wave of settlers. She's thirty-three now, and Earth is a dream she barely remembers. She's seen the beginning of this new phase of human civilization—and when she undergoes Soma, a life-extension treatment, she'll be around for the next one, too. But immortality changes a person in ways nobody could have predicted. Soma is a short story excerpted from the upcoming novel The Settlers: Book 1 of the Movement Series. This trilogy follows humanity as they journey into the depths of space, seeking a future that is anything but certain.