Book description
Mars, 600 years in the future, is dying. Five hundred years after the
Chinese conquered the Red Planet, the great work of terraforming is
failing. The human-machine Consensus of Earth had persuaded the AI
Emperor to follow the Golden Path into a vast virtual reality universe,
leaving behind an ungoverned planet swept by hunger riots and the
beginnings of civil war. Enter Wei Lee, a lowly itinerant agricultural
technician: rock 'n' roll fan, dupe, holy fool - and unlikely Messiah.
After stumbling on an anarchist pilot hiding near the wreckage of her
spacecraft, he's drawn into a revolutionary plot that has been spinning
for decades. With the help of a ghost, the broadcasts of the King of the
Cats, a Yankee yak herder, and a little Girl God, Lee travels across the
badlands, swampy waterways and vast dust seas to a showdown at the
summit of the biggest volcano in the Solar System. Not even the God-like
Consensus can predict the outcome of his struggle to define his own
destiny . . . Epic in scope, Red Dust's spectacular, fast-paced story
brilliantly brings to life the planet that has captured our imagination
like no other.
