On Mars Series

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 for 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 triumphant humans on Mars. Now she may be one of the last. Read the series! Check out the value priced Box Set, Colony on Mars.

Contacting recent settlers half a planet away may be the only hope for a rebellious young man's failing colony, though the conflicts they bring from Earth could be deadly. Jake is born into a dying colony, abandoned by Earth. Sickness plagues his family, and Mars yields none of the minerals they need to survive. A second colony arrives half a planet away, but visiting the newcomers is more perilous than he imagined. The newcomers hold the key to survival, if only Jake can understand the conflicts among these Earth-borns from China and Africa. They bring advanced technologies and tantalizing possibilities. But if they forge ties with Jake, they'll defy their masters on Earth and perhaps be abandoned too. Watch the sun rise through the thin Martian atmosphere and smell the acrid soil that clings to surface suits. Join Jake on adventures far from his home habitat. From NASA to Mars One and SpaceX, real-life visionaries plan to settle on Mars. You can go today in science fiction. Each book in the series joins a different settler struggling to build a life on Mars.

A call for help sends Sig into the Tartarus Mountains of Mars. Delivering repair parts to his mother offers a temporary escape from his miserable life in the colony, but there are dangers in her cavern and on the surface of the hostile Red Planet he hadn't expected. The Big Project is conquering the Martian landscape with Sig's robots but his own life's falling apart. Frustrations in the lab and clashes with his partner leave him despondent. Now, both love and peril await him among the miners who live in the cavern and explore the surrounding mountains for rare crystalline minerals. Rogues steal Sig's rider - his way home - and since no one's ever seen the Hermit, blind trust in his life support systems could be deadly. Join Sig exploring rugged mountains under Martian moons and daring the strange dunes of the Amazon Plain. He's going to save his mother and the others who live in the cavern whether they accept his help or not. Provided he survives. Colonizing Mars belongs to today's headlines from NASA, Mars One, The Mars Society, SpaceX, and others. Follow the growing excitement for discovery and exploration away from the early fantasies of Edgar Rice Burroughs to Ben Bova [The Grand Tour Mars], Kim Stanley Robinson [Red Mars], and Andy Weir [The Martian]. To Kate Rauner's On Mars series - a colony you might live in someday.

Bliss is certain this is the best time to be Mars-born. The colony has grown - no disaster could possibly wipe them out now. She's leaving her little burg and childhood sweetheart behind to move to Kamp Kans, the largest city on Mars with six hundred eighty-two people. There's a dark side to Kamp and her new boss is crazy, but she won't let that spoil the fun. Her team's building a waterfall inside an enormous lava tube on the flank of the massive Peacock Mountain. There's also work to be done on the hostile Martian surface, where unforeseen dangers wait. But there's more good luck. Earthers announce they're sending a cargo mission to Mars for the first time in generations, and her handsome teammate is arranging for something weird to be included in the shipment. When corrupt people on both planets drag her into the middle of their deadly schemes, surely doing the right thing will protect her. Join Bliss as she explores a buried glacier and builds a park under the vast hump of a long-dead volcano. Discover the malice hidden beneath the colony's placid veneer, as Bliss searches within for the courage to save them all. Colonizing Mars belongs to today's headlines from NASA, Mars One, The Mars Society, SpaceX, and others. Follow the growing excitement for discovery and exploration away from the early fantasies of Edgar Rice Burroughs to Ben Bova [The Grand Tour Mars], Kim Stanley Robinson [Red Mars], and Andy Weir [The Martian]. To Kate Rauner's On Mars series - a colony you might live in someday.

When robots provide all their necessities, colonists are safe inside their stone bays, free to pursue leisure vocations. Zeker, from the northern ice mine, isn't so content. He plans to change Mars, and as soon as he adult-qualifies, he joins the elite Tower Guilds. But his neuroplasticity treatments may have failed, because his own impulses become his biggest challenge. Whether it's an accident in the Towers, exploring below the Tunnel floor, or dodging flares on the surface, if something weird is happening, Zeker's close by. Though he swears trouble is never his fault. When he can't charm his way past the guild chief, Zeker's temper lands him in a lawless burg filled with desperate people. And one special lady. Farther from his goals than ever, he must find a way back to the Towers, because more than his project is in peril. Storm is the latest story in Kate Rauner's On Mars series. Each book follows one settler from a different generation, striving to build a life on the Red Planet. Their society struggles and grows as the colonists face dangers from Earth, each other, and the harsh alien world they must transform into a home.