Life and Death on Mars, my December 2023 novel, is now available as an audiobook. Huzzah! The audio version was produced by Tantor, a division of Recorded Books.
(Tantor is also the Ape-ish word for elephant in the Tarzan books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It beats me if there's any connection.)
The novel remains available as an ebook -- here's the Kindle edition (you can find other formats on various etail sites) -- and a print edition.
What (beyond the obvious) is Life and Death on Mars about? I'm glad you asked ...
As though landing people safely on Mars weren't daunting enough ...
The Space Race of the Sixties, at the height of the Cold War, had been nail-biting—until the Soviet Union forfeited.
In the Thirties—amid a second Cold War—China is not about to lose the race to Mars. Nor is the United States. Nor, quite the wildcard, is a secretive cabal drawn from among the world's multi-billionaires. All of them scrambling to launch deep-space missions on a schedule to make the Sixties contest appear lackadaisical.
Competition that could only continue on the Red Planet.
More treacherous still? The rivalries, resentments, and distrust that simmer just beneath the surface within each expedition.
More difficult yet? Survival on that arid, radiation-drenched, all-but-airless planet.
These challenges have somehow fallen into the lap of NASA engineer—and reluctant astronaut—Xander Hopkins.
But the thorniest problem of all? The existential quandary for which neither training nor experience has in any way prepared Xander? Making sense of the seemingly unstoppable plague that has already killed. The plague that seems poised to devastate all life on Mars and on another world.
Earth.
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