The Last Song Beneath Paris The Deep Space Observer 2 June 2300 — Pioneer-12, Lowest Engineering Bay, Maintenance Console Seven Far below the recreation lounge — past the acoustic walls, past the laughter and the saxophone notes — lies the engineering bay. Here, at Maintenance Console Seven, Seb Naidoo has been working for four straight…

The Last Song Beneath Paris Destined Meeting 2 June 2300 — Pioneer-12, Culture and Civic Ring Public Recreation Lounge On her first night aboard Pioneer-12, Evie barely sleeps. Her cabin is small but far cleaner than any dressing room in Underground Paris — soft white walls, a small observation window beside the bed, and nothing…

The Last Song Beneath Paris Boarding Pioneer-12 23 May 2300 — Underground Paris Space Shuttle Station One week after the concert, Evie leaves Underground Paris. Not by train or by surface airport — Earth’s surface is no longer safe for ordinary people, and the true road to space has long been buried beneath layers of…

The Last Song Beneath Paris The Last Song Beneath Paris 16 May 2300 — Underground Paris, Level Seven Central District It is 2300, and Paris no longer belongs to the sky. Fifty years after the Nuclear Global War left the surface world an uninhabitable wasteland, the city lives seven levels underground. Real sunlight exists only…