 Though Stross wrote "Saturn's Children" as a standalone novel, he published a short story sequel called "Bit Rot" in the 2010 anthology "Engineering Infinity" and later made it available online.In the story, a descendant android of Freya's named Lilith Nakamichi-47 is on a long interstellar voyage as a catastrophic event wreaks havoc on the spaceship and its occupants.Robert E. Waters of "Tangent" classified "Bit Rot" as "one of the hardest SF stories" in the anthology, and called it "one of the most clever zombie stories in recent memory."