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Sisters

Cassidy Byrne-Alli was the first child born on Mars. That had been almost five years ago—Martian years, which made her almost ten in Earth years. Her sister, Oriana, had been born one Martian year later. Other children had been born since Cas as well. Those who were old enough attended the first Martian school—currently just one classroom shared by all ages. That classroom, and the rest of the colony, was deep underground in caves left behind by ancient lava flows. Kids older than four attended Surface Training three times a week.

Shelter: Generation Mars, Book Two

Coming in March

(image: Luis Peres)

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Hellas Planitia

Hellas Planitia is an impact basin in the southern hemisphere of Mars. Impact basin is the term scientists use when they mean “really big crater,” and, as craters go, Hellas is huge. Mars has two of the largest impact basins in the solar system, and Hellas is one of them. The object that struck here, four billion years ago, was big enough to leave a crater 2,300 kilometers across and 7,152 meters deep. The tallest mountains of Earth could sit in the bottom of Hellas and barely peek over the rim.

Four billion years later, the impact of that object turned out to be critical for human existence on Mars.

Shelter: Generation Mars, Book Two

Coming in March

#mars #scifi #childrensbooks

(image: Luis Peres)

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Third book cover reveal

Oye! Just uploaded files to my printer for the third book. Now some back and forth, digital and print, to iron out the kinks before release. If all goes as planned, preorders start February 14 for a March 1 release. Time to reveal the cover!

illustrated by Luis Peres

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William Shatner visits space

I love this reaction (at 2:45:50). I don’t think I’d want a champagne shower and party as I stepped out of that capsule either. Life-changing events require time to process. Thanks, William Shatner, for giving voice to that wonder.
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Busy busy

The bulk writing, the writing just to get traction and capture the story is long done. Now it’s finesse and fleshing out and filling holes and making consistent: the hard stuff. This is going to take some time.

In the meantime, here’s an outhouse on Mars.

Word count over the past few days: 3796

image: composite using artwork by Luis Peres from the second book and an image from https://www.flickr.com/people/scottkmacleod/