Concept: Throughout history real and imagined there have always been those who, through choice or necessity, have lived, worked, loved, and sometimes died, in the low port of their era. There always will be a low port, of course, and our intent is to collect original science fiction and science fantasy stories exploring the lives and adventures of the scrapin'-by folk not the star captains in their glittery tradeships, or the merchants in their silks, but the people who work on the on the docks, or who steal, or whore, or minister, or who dream of getting out. This is *NOT* a shared Liaden UniverseŽ anthology.