Pennsylvania

is a short story, 16,500 words (about forty five pages,) and it is the first in the Pennsylvania series.

Jedidiah Troyer is now a traveler. He has signed up for an emigration program that is colonizing the planet of New Pennsylvania. He just wants to start a farm and homestead on affordable land in a new Amish community. Space pioneering isn't as easy as it sounds when you're plain.

… As he leaned over to pull his meal tray from the slot in the machine, he noticed the computer screen above the slot.

Your charge: 2,000 Unilets

Your balance: 598,000 Unilets

598,000 Unilets! Wait a minute. That’s way too much. Something is wrong…