Mars Wars Series:
Detonation Event (Mars Wars Book 1)
by John Andrew Karr
BLURB:
For
decades the Space Consortium of America has searched for new ways to harvest
resources beyond an increasingly depleted Earth. The ultimate plan is about to
be ignited. So is the ultimate threat to humankind . . .
DETONATION EVENT
Battle-hardened Captain
Ry Devans and his crew of the Mars Orbiter Station One (MOS-1) are part of a
bold plan: resurrect the active molten cores of the Red Planet with
synchronized thermonuclear explosions, and terraform the hell out of that
iron-oxide rock for future generations. It’ll change history. So will the
strands of carbon-based Martian cells that have hitched a ride on the ship.
Dr. Karen Wagner knows
the microbes’ resistance to virus is incredible. It’s the unknowable that’s
dicey. Her orders: blow them into space. But orders can be undermined. Two
vials have been stolen and sent hurtling toward the biosphere. For Devans and Wagner,
ferreting out the saboteurs on board is only the beginning. Because there are
more of them back on Earth—an army of radical eco-terrorists anxious to create
a New World Order with a catastrophic gift from Mars.
Now,
one-hundred-and-forty-million miles away from home, Devans is feeling
expendable, betrayed, a little adrift, and a lot wild-eyed. But space madness
could be his salvation—and Earth’s. He has a plan. And he’ll have to be crazy
to make it work.
Excerpt:
From Destination Event, Mars Wars, Book 1
The barren red face of Mars grew before them.
The space shuttles of two centuries earlier had orbited Earth at roughly
five miles a second. Doubling that speed, even tripling it—and in a hurry—was
within easy capability of the PS-class shuttles.
Devans threw in a series of mild doglegs to make it a little interesting
for Wagner. He had to admit, the youth had staying power. An hour later and
Wagner hadn’t even taken a bathroom break. Two blips showed up on the main
hologram of the planet below. They marked tunnel locations T1 and T2 as
yellow-highlighted lines that shot straight down. Both had tiny right angles at
the ends where the bombs were housed.
As they approached the space over T1, the surface camera feeds showed
nothing but a mass of gray-and-red dust. Very little wind speed. It was thick
but gentle, like a snow globe after its been shaken.
“Raise shields, Nuro,” Devans said. “Shannon, how about splashing our entry
on the big monitor here and the feed to the crew?”
The shuttle’s shields warded off the entry heat and they entered the
anemic Martian atmosphere.
“Withdraw shields, Nuro.”
“Withdrawing.”
“Nice sandstorm,” Devans said, gazing at the roiling wall hundreds of
feet high.
“Dust storm!” Trent Wagner said over his shoulder as he leaned back and
forth on the table as if shredding the galaxy’s longest wave. “This is the tail
end of it!”
“How long until cleared?”
“Two or three.”
“Couple, three hours, not so bad.”
“Weeks,” Wagner said.
“And here I just had this thing washed. Let’s go to the dark side for
now.”
The sun cut a divide on the red planet’s surface. PS-9 easily
outdistanced the storm and raced over the desert surface to the dark side. The
second blip beckoned them on the navigation screens. Near total darkness pushed
against their vessel lights.
This was the eve of the moment they all had labored for…One last manual
check and they would attempt to resurrect Mars with synchronized thermonuclear
explosions at the core.
At least, that was the plan.
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
From his home in Wilmington, North Carolina, John Andrew Karr (also John A. Karr) writes of the strange and spectacular. He is the author of a handful of independent and small press novels and novellas, and also leaves in his wake a trail of short stories.
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