The Empress of Mars (Company)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780765318909 (0765318903)
ASIN: 0765318903
Publish date: 2009-05-12
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
This is one I'd missed since my prior reading of the series. Such rich stuff: a collection of misfits and eccentrics who boldly set out to terraform Mars find themselves in opposition to the corporation, BAC, who administers the colony, and which also tries to screw them over at every opportunity. M...
Just a caveat: this is my first Kage Baker book. No, I haven't read any other Company books (apparently this isn't a Company book, per se, but part of that universe), so take what you will from it.I thought it was a cheeky and fun book. It's about the colonization/some colonists of Mars. I like...
Read by Nicola Barber. This is a good old-fashioned space opera that focuses on the people in a sci-fi setting. In this case it’s on an incompetently, apathetically settled Mars. The misfit settlers of Mars stoically face the hardships Mars throws at them and unite as one in their hatred for the ...
Mary Griffith came to Mars to be a fancy-pants scientist, but when her research looked less than lucrative, the British Arean Company fired her, leaving her stranded on the desolate rock. Luckily, Mary had an indomitable spirit, three beautiful daughters, and knew how to make beer. These assets in...