Book description
“It's not one thing, Bill . . . It's the rain, and the winds, and the
dust, and the heat . . . the food, things you can't identify, things
that taste like string. No milk. No coffee. No eggs. No meat . . .
Being hot, cold, drenched, parched, tired, and restless, all within an
hour or so. Oh I could scream!”
Life on Mars was far from heavenly for the refugees of Earth. Joining
the existing human colony on the Red Planet gave them life, but at
what price?
As time passes, Bill Easson will see first-hand the lengths to which
humanity can be pushed . . . and the new frontiers on which it can survive.
J. T. McIntosh is the pseudonym used by the Scottish science
fiction writer James Murdoch Macgregor. Born in 1925 in
Renfrewshire, he published his first short story in 1950 in
Astounding Science Fiction. His first novel was published in
1953. He died in 2008.
