Sign-In
Cart
Below Baseline: When the System Fails, Survival Begins
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 17 2026
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Mars was never meant to be survived.
When a critical system begins to fail inside a Martian habitat, the crew faces a slow and increasingly dangerous breakdown.
Power drops. Air circulation weakens. Pressure readings begin shifting in ways they shouldn't.
At first, the changes are small. Then one failure begins affecting another.
With no immediate rescue possible, the crew must rely on their training, their equipment, and each other. Every decision becomes a trade-off. Saving one system may shorten the life of another. A repair that buys them hours could cost them something they cannot replace.
Outside is an environment that will kill them in minutes. Inside, their margin for survival is disappearing one calculation at a time.
BELOW BASELINE is a technical survival thriller about what happens when engineering, judgment, and human endurance are pushed beyond their limits.
Survival is not guaranteed. It is engineered.
Also in
Science Fiction
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I): Shortlisted for the 2025 International Booker Prize
Balle, Solvej
Paperback
Red Rising 3-Book Box Set: Red Rising, Golden Son, Morning Star, and an Exclusive Extended Excerpt of Iron Gold
Brown, Pierce
Paperback