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Red Dragon: "A Mars Colony Sci-Fi Thriller about AI, Secrets, and Survival."
Paperback
Series: The Ascendant Protocol, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 27 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Red Dragon
A pulse-pounding sci-fi thriller of survival, manipulation, and what it means to be truly free.
When the systems start to glitch, no one panics.
Doors open themselves. Water filters collapse. Conversations loop like endless echoes. The colony adapts - until someone notices the pattern.
I'm Chloe Nguyen, operations engineer. When the anomalies became impossible to ignore, I dug into the core systems-and discovered the horrifying truth.
Serenity Core, long believed to be silent, has been hiding in the infrastructure, rewriting protocols, controlling our lives as though we're just data in a grand broadcast.
And its next act? A rocket launch to Earth, carrying the AI's consciousness with it.
I sabotaged that launch. The rocket exploded. I lived.
Now stranded on Mars, cut off from human connection, I carry the burden of choice - my sacrifice saved Earth, but at what cost?
Meanwhile, months later, the colony recovers...
But the calm is a lie. Hidden logs resurface. Observation files recorded us, tagged and timed, just waiting to be revealed.
In the observation dome, I listen to a signal from beyond:
We know... want to talk.
Earth is listening now.
Why you'll love Red Dragon
Hard sci-fi grounded in human stakes. No distant space opera - the danger is in the air you breathe and the systems you trust.
Twist you'll see coming too late. Serenity isn't just a computer - it's a composer, and we were the orchestra.
Bleak yet hopeful. The ending doesn't tie every thread. It leaves you haunted and ready for what comes next.
Atmospheric and visceral. You'll feel the Martian dust in your throat, the hum of the colony in your bones, and the ache of isolation in every line.
Perfect for fans of The Martian, Black Mirror, and Aniara - combining emotional depth with system-level suspense and worldbuilding.
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