Man Who Hated Mars
Man Who Hated Mars
Clayton was sent to die on Mars. What he didn't know was that the red planet had plans for him first. Exiled to a supposedly inescapable camp, surrounded by steel walls that have never been breached and guards who answer to no one, he schemes his way toward the one thing that might save him: a ship off this dust-choked hell. But Mars doesn't wait. The planet begins its slow work, changing men in ways they don't understand until it's too late. By the time Clayton finds his way to freedom, he is no longer the man who arrived. He is something harder, stranger, filled with a hatred that runs deeper than the rust-red canyons themselves. This is survival SF at its lean and merciless best: a story about what we sacrifice to live, and what we become in the living. Also includes four bonus stories: Bramblebush, Viewpoint, Time Fuze, and Heist Job on Thizar.
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