A struggle for survival on humanity’s new frontier.
Determined to explore with her robots, Emma Winters leaves Earth for a fragile outpost on a vast, frozen plain. She trained with her friends for the planet’s challenges, but when a spaceship crashes, the pilot's death may have been murder, and a deadly mystery drives the settlers apart.
Emma's allies falter and clues remain elusive. As catastrophe threatens, can she discover the truth, or will the first humans on Mars be the last?
In Glory on Mars, Kate Rauner weaves a tale of realistic science fiction. Life on a hostile world demands courage, sacrifice, and resilience. Dare to join the adventure.
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Something is terribly wrong on Mars.The colony's psychologist just walked out an airlock to her death, but that doesn't stop roboticist Emma Winters. She leaves Earth forever to live in cold stone bays on the vast Tharsis Plain.Settlers who greet her are oddly hostile, and despite an advanced squad of construction bots, a strange sickness cripples their efforts to build a livable habitat. Plagued by deadly accidents, she must discover the truth before the planet's lethal surface will kill them all.Emma planned to explore in her robotic walkabout, to be one of the first humans on Mars. Now she may be one of the last.Read the series through generations - a different settler struggles with Mars and other colonists in each book. Get them individually or in the Kindle edition, value-priced Box Set Colony on Mars.
Kate Rauner, Hanover, New Mexico, USA I'm a science fiction writer, poet, firefighter, and engineer on my way to eccentric old woman. I write science fiction novels and science poetry, and serve as a volunteer firefighter. Also a retired engineer and Cold War Warrior (honestly, that's what Congress called us) because I worked in America's nuclear weapons complex. Now living on the edge of the southwest's Gila National Forest with my husband, cats, llamas, and dog, I'm well on my way to achieving my life-goal of becoming an eccentric old woman. Also by Kate Scifi: Glitch, Venture, On Mars series Poetry: Rhyme and Reason series Visit me at katerauner.wordpress.com
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