The Net by Loren J. MacGregor

The Net by Loren J. MacGregor

Oligarch/dashing thief Jason Horiuchi accepts a dare from rival oligarch Alecko Papandreou. Jason wants adventure. What she and her crew get is death.

Five SF Works About Climate Change Published Before the 1980s

Five SF Works About Climate Change Published Before the 1980s

Free to a good home

One of them independent asteroid belt settings, except in this case the Belt is highly Balkanized. Not because of Pesky Belter rocket logic, although that plays a role, but because the powers that be on Earth find the individual settlements much easier to deal with if they're not a unified front so division are encouraged.