You can't fight the future. You can try to run from it, however. Avery always followed the rules, even as the late-21st-century kept changing them almost hourly. He went to school. He got a respectable job in the megacity of San Josisco. At night he took social sensitivity therapy just because his girlfriend thought it was a good idea. He was a nice guy. Life wasn't easy but everything was worth it because he had a goal: a life of freedom on Mars....