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480 Pages - New
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On the surface of Mars, all signals from Earth cease
without warning and with no apparent cause. One minute the Earth is the
brightest radio source in the known universe - the next minute it is as if the
third planet from the sun had never existed at all. To the relatively new, first human colony on
the Red planet, self-sufficiency is a distant dream. If Earth ceases to exist
for whatever reason - their own days are likewise numbered. Without periodic resupply from the home planet,
they are irrevocably doomed. For the
human race to survive, a lot of people are going to have to die...
Across the planet, lies the only other colony on Mars
from the Reunified Soviet Empire, separated by over a thousand kilometers of hostile,
deadly Martian desert. When they conclude that there can be no rescue and
no way out but fight one another or die, the ultimate battle for the survival
of the human species begins. Outside on the trackless planetary deserts
of Mars, the relentless and deep cold of the Martian winter begins to seep
inside as the carbon dioxide snows and impenetrable sandstorms descend on them
all with a vengeance.
Dennis Chamberland, former NASA space life scientist and
advanced life support systems engineer, as well as master storyteller, weaves together
an epic interplanetary mystery in an action adventure tale on Mars. Told by an expert in space colony systems
design with up-to-date science and engineering experience, Mars Base One is the
premier hard science fiction story for the 21st century, inevitably to portend tomorrow’s
headlines.
Mars Base One is filled with the full sweep of human
emotions from the bittersweet romance between men and women whose days are
clearly numbered, to the mystery of losing contact with all they have ever
known on earth, and the fear of a silent and cunning enemy intent on destruction
and domination. The pages are filled with interplanetary intrigue, the
race against an emotionless clock, a spectacular, savage wilderness and the
specter of a war of insanity waged to survive just one more day.
Mars Base One is the completely updated version of the bestselling
novel, Abyss of Elysium, released in 2004 and forwarded by Mercury Astronaut
Scott Carpenter. Mars Base One has been
updated with all the known Martian science and conditions that were unknown in
2004, making this edition of the story totally realistic and accurate. The earlier versions of Mars Base One can be
found in many of the Earth based Mars analog bases across the world as well as most
of the undersea habitats on planet Earth.
This is the first book in a two-book series of parallel
novels. Its companion novel is Abyss of Space, available here from Quantum Editions.
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