The first of November brings us the third part of A Pocketful of Stars, the incomplete rough-draft sequel to “Found: One Apocalypse.” In this installment, war veteran Iorgi Murrett must confront his past, and possibly have sex with it.

I tortured myself trying to think of what the Velincian Irregulars would find at the end of the trail; when I realized that these were a pair of criminal organizations each trying to bluff the other to death, the colony started to take shape. “We’ve tried everything else, so we’re just going to scare the galaxy into leaving us alone” seems like a fair place to land.