I Walked on Mars: Book 2 Deployment

They were selected, trained, tested by the journey. They set foot on Mars. Now the first walls must be built, the first recycled air breathed, the first seeds planted, and life learned in a place where no human being has ever lived before. But founding a colony is not merely a matter of survival. The Martian city ceases to be a mission: fragile, buried beneath red dust, dependent on its greenhouses, its machines, its reactors, it becomes a world to be invented. Every failure, every conflict reveals a new truth there. Mars forgives nothing, but it transforms those who accept that they belong to it. As David, Stella, and the others learn to live far from Earth, certainties begin to crack. Secrets rise to the surface, loyalties shift. A society begins to emerge where there had once been only a visionary project. And, in the distance, something is approaching... The second volume in the I Walked on Mars quadrilogy, this work of prospective science fiction continues the story of an adventure most of us could see begin within our own lifetimes: the founding of the first permanent human colony on Mars. For readers who would like to explore the author's visual universe for this second volume, a photo book is also available: I Walked on Mars - The Author's Vision.