Shelby Hiatt

Mars 20 Shelby Hiatt

Space science fiction. They may look like superheroes but they're actually Martian teens having fun, this is not fantasy. In 2055 Mars is a safer place to live than Earth. Earth is tough, all that gravity, all that traffic, all those airborne diseases, and holy moly, all the wars and weapons...how did people survive? So for twenty years the Mars One settlers have been living on the red planet where life is free, easy and safe--it's Utopian. What could possibly go wrong? Then something does. The settlers from Earth have been impaired by improperly cured concrete in the Martian grower dome, the colony's only food source. Flowing water is required to fix it. Mars has none of that in the quantity they need and Earth is no help; it's in climate change disaster mode. So with a telemetry loaded robot (Baby Bot) and a high tech, core drilling rover, the oldest teens, Kit and her boyfriend Rob, go on a search for underground springs. When they're defeated by carbon dioxide geysers and a quake, it looks like the colony is doomed. But maybe not. Because in some ways, these whip-smart kids are superheroes. They just won't give up. And it's going to take all their technical savvy and every idea they can MacGyver to save their parents, the colony, and NASA's space exploration program. .