A Year Owed

A millennium from now, twenty-three-year-old Jare Redding is alone in this life, eager to leave Earth and forget his past. Against steep odds, he has been selected to take part in the colonization of a distant planet, just as he has hoped. All that stands between him and his voyage through the stars is a year of Agricultural Service, a civic duty made mandatory centuries ago, after billions died in global wars that left Earth devastated.