Jim Marlowe and his close chum Frank are just on the edge of being adults, old enough to carry side-arms and about to be sent off to boarding school near the equator but young enough that Jim really, really does not want to leave his pet bouncer Willis behind, particularly since there is some chance that the bouncer’s poorly understood life-cycle will forever part the two. Changes are coming for the colonists, changes that will cast a stark light on the assumptions the humans have about their hosts. 1949’s Red Planet takes us to a Mars far more habitable than the real one, an inviting if challenging world whose ancient civilization seems to have little issue sharing Mars with a handful of human colonists from Earth.
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