The novelette “The Fifth Dragon” by Ian McDonald was published for the first time in 2014.

Adriana Corta is working in the mines on the Moon there is having a love story with Achi Debasso, an ecologist of Syrian origin. They are two very different women who found each other in a frontier that’s hostile but in great expansion. For their future it will be crucial to decide whether to return to Earth or to keep on living on the Moon. The point of no return will be marked by the moment their bones are too atrophied to return to Earth.