Welcome to Slipstream, an experiment in world-building. It was inspired by the episodic-but-connected short stories of “I, Robot” and similar. I have no idea how Asimov approached this, but I plan to do it all organically and see what happens.
Here’s the seed of the whole thing:
A Human colony on
GJ 887 b(TODO — name planet) has been suddenly cut off from Earth.