Endurant - A Hard Sci-Fi Anthology

Earth is a world of injustice, everybody knows that. Evil goes unpunished, good goes unrewarded, but there is an end to the torment. The moment is rare, but points of beauty do exist, and are to be treasured and cherished.

The Earth is clothed in a putrescent cloud as a consequence to mankind's actions, and firestorms tear with the force of a nuclear bomb. Humanity lives in domes: bubbles blown in bedrock, and conditions are dismal.
On other planets, the grass is far from greener. Society is coming back from a period of friction, kept under the thumbs of tyrannic regimes. Mars and Earth are kept under the thumb of tyrannic regimes.