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Mars Exile: A Hard Science Fiction Novel
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
On Mars, one shift worked buys one shift of air. No shift, no breath. For eighty-four years the colony has survived on that arithmetic - and on the story the Founders built around it: We left Earth to save humanity.
Kira Rios counts things. Rations, seconds, the dead. It is the family inheritance: her grandmother taught her that whoever keeps the ledger owns the truth - and her grandmother's ledger has eighty-four years of murders in it.
When a Founder is spaced in Airlock 4 and Earth's voice returns after a lifetime of silence with three words - Mars. Return. Now. - the lie begins to crack. The colony's founding family sold oxygen that never existed. Now Earth is coming to collect: forty marines and a debt collector with a paper sky, and a rule written before Kira was born - when the air runs out, the colony votes on who lives.
MARS EXILE is a standalone hard science fiction novel where the math is real:
- An economy you can audit - air debt, compound interest, and the true cost of every breath, derived in a technical appendix
- A democracy on the edge - a two-thirds vote decides what survival costs
- A mystery three generations deep - one diary, one mask, one inheritance
- A heroine who counts - because grief makes you bad at math, and she refuses to be bad at math
Heroes are just people who got away with it. Kira Rios is about to learn what that costs.
The Founders lied. They were never heroes. Now their children own the Red Planet.
Read it before Earth arrives to collect - scroll up and buy MARS EXILE today.
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