What is water like?

Parents sometimes have moments in which they are caught speechless by a realization about the world as their child sees it. In this case, the realization was this: her daughter had never known water as anything beyond something to drink or to rinse off with in the shower. Cas wanted to know what it was like to have so much water available that you could jump into it, sink into it, be in it. This required a well-considered answer.

From Water: Generation Mars, Book Three. Available now at https://www.amazon.com/Water-Generation-Mars-Book-Three/dp/1733731067

Image: Modified from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_girl_in_a_swimming_pool_-_underwater.jpg (Reg Mckenna from UK, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ )

Made of Mars

It’s important to remember that life, in the collective sense, is made up of an uncountable number of lives, in the individual sense. Two such were those of Cas, the first child born on Mars, and Ori, her little sister. These sisters, like all humans, required oxygen to breath. On Mars, much of that oxygen came from the ice the colonists mined. The body of each sister, like the bodies of all humans, was 60% water and required frequent hydration. On Mars, that hydration came from the ice the colonists mined. The sisters, like all life, were composed of the elements available in their environment. Mars was their home, and they were made of Mars.

From Water: Generation Mars, Book Three. Available now at https://www.amazon.com/Water-Generation-Mars-Book-Three/dp/1733731067

Image: illustration by Luis Perez for Air: Generation Mars, Book One

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Panspermia

It is a truism that where life exists it will expand to use every resource available. Three and a half billion years later, back on Earth, life had left the oceans, evolved to exploit all the resources of the planet, and had been merrily going about doing so until the Earth had little more to give. Luckily, that life had also evolved into a form that no longer required a random collision to leave the surface of its planet. That life looked up and thought, “We could go out there. We should probably go out there.” So that life returned to Mars in machines of its own design, set up shop mining the frozen ancient water from whence it had originated, and began to build an existence for itself on this now strange and desolate planet of its birth.

Flirting with panspermia in Water: Generation Mars, Book Three. Available now at https://www.amazon.com/Water-Generation-Mars-Book-Three/dp/1733731067

Image: illustration by Luis Perez for Shelter: Generation Mars, Book Two

Shelter on sale

On sale now for $0.99! Get your copy of the Kindle edition of Shelter: Generation Mars, Book Two.

Water: Generation Mars, Book Three is coming October 22

In anticipation of the release, I am putting Kindle editions of each of the first three books on sale in October. Each book will be available for $0.99 for one week.

Scratching the Surface – October 1-7
Air – October 8-14
*Shelter – October 15-21*

Shelter, on sale now!

https://www.amazon.com/Shelter-Generation-Mars-Book-Two-ebook/dp/B09TL397FJ

And be sure to pre-order your copy of the Kindle edition of Water: Generation Mars, Book Three for the special pre-order price.
https://www.amazon.com/Water-Generation-Mars-Book-Three-ebook/dp/B0CK6RLNTG

 

 

Air on sale

On sale now for $0.99! Get your copy of the Kindle edition of Air: Generation Mars, Book One.

Water: Generation Mars, Book Three is coming October 22

In anticipation of the release, I am putting Kindle editions of each of the first three books on sale in October. Each book will be available for $0.99 for one week.

Scratching the Surface – October 1-7
*Air – October 8-14*
Shelter – October 15-21

Air, on sale now!

And be sure to pre-order your copy of the Kindle edition of Water: Generation Mars, Book Three for the special pre-order price.

 

Water available October 22

*Available October 22 in print and on Kindle*

Water: Generation Mars, Book Three

Swimming on Mars? Not likely. There is water on Mars, but it is frozen solid beneath the surface. In book three, Water, the children are touring an abandoned ice mine from the colony’s early years when an unpredictable seismic event traps them in a dark and shifting labyrinth of ice. Escape will require resilience and sacrifice beyond anything they have experienced.

Kindle edition available for pre-order at a special price now at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK6RLNTG

illustration: Luis Peres

StS on sale now!

On sale now for $0.99! Get your copy of the Kindle edition of Scratching the Surface: Generation Mars, Prelude.
https://www.amazon.com/Scratching-Surface-Generation-Mars-Prelude-ebook/dp/B07W76QP8B

Water: Generation Mars, Book Three is coming!

In anticipation of the release, I am putting Kindle editions of each of the first three books on sale in October. Each book will be available for $0.99 for one week.

Scratching the Surface – October 1-7
Air – October 8-14
Shelter – October 15-21

Scratching the Surface, on sale now!