Downstation Blues — Robert Roth

Earth Orbit Station–Prime, the largest of the orbital stations and home to hundreds of thousands of Confederation corporate citizens, is the system's gateway to Earth and a jewel in the Confederation's crown. With its pristine parklands, electrifying nightlife, galaxy-class shopping, and inspiring entertainment, life aboard EOS-1 is luxurious and carefree.As long as you live Upstation.For Nix, a young snatcher working the Downstation markets and corridors of EOS-1, life is hard. Since he's Unregistered and forced to live off Upstation society's dregs, a hard life is the only life he knows. But snatching is what he's good at, and it's the only way he knows how to get by. Then his orbit gets all spun out when he catches heat from the hard-driven agents of Earth Orbit Station Security. And he has to face some harsh realities about what he believes and who he cares about before he gets sent on the short walk and long drop on the Downwell Express.