A beautiful girl. Her Space Marine. Their little boy. A little downtime on an alien planet....and surfing. As well as a little sports fishing. It's more or less a sequel to "I Married a Heptapod", but it stands on its own.
Tamara is coming of age and learning about a four-letter word. Single Ship pilots are a strange breed; not really anti-social but unsocial. They can get by just fine for months and even years on end with only voices on their radios for company. Every now and then, though, they are faced with things outside their experience.
A Story in the Eros Universe
Roger rescues Amber from being killed by her old Master. While she is recovering, he explains his origins on Eros. Amber joins him in his business. After a time she goes to visit her father. It turns out to be a very bad trip. This is story one in the Eros Universe.
A hiker stumbles onto a heavy iron door set into the side of a river cut. After figuring out how to open it he is tested, then enlightened with a technology predating the Egyptian Pharos. From there it gets strange.