Regulation follows regulation and Jim proves to have a particular talent for angering Howe.
Jim decides to take his pet with him and that decision triggers an entire cascade of consequences for Jim, his family and friends and potentially the entire human race.īoarding school proves less fun than had been anticipated the new school master, Howe, is a martinet fresh from a military academy on Earth, a fellow who qualifications are less that he is good at his job and more that he is the nephew of the head of the Company that sent the colonists to Mars. 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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