RED PLANET PERIL!
Mars, 1936. The Jazz Age meets the Space Age. The planets of the inner solar system have been colonized using the special properties of Tri-Crystals to power rockets, rayguns, and much more.
When some artificial-and highly unstable-crystal appears on the Martian black market, indigenous A.E.G.I.S. officer Sinari Vohn is plucked from the ranks to investigate.
And her first command may well be her last.
With a handpicked team consisting of a Terran criminal, a Venusian mob enforcer, a gorilla scientist, and an alien robot, she must solve the mystery of the volatile crystals, and face a sinister new player on the alien frontier: the Third Reich!
Set in the world of the Airship Daedalus series and AEGIS Tales anthologies, Renegades of Mars is the first in a new raypunk saga from the author of Calico Kids, Sakuru, and The Parish. It's a rip-roaring sci-fi adventure full of pulpy action, mystery, and a touch of romance, hurtling toward an alternate second World War that will be fought not only on Earth, but in space.
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
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978-1-961545-12-0 (9781961545120)
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Todd Downing's love affair with genre storytelling dates back to his consumption of classic radio dramas and comic books as a child in the 1970s, which broadened into a general appreciation for sci-fi and fantasy media of all kinds.He grew up in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, writing and drawing from a young age, his works ever-present in school literary journals and newspapers, and eventually on film. He married his high school sweetheart and moved to Seattle in 1991 where he began to write professionally, and worked as an artist in the videogame industry until his publishing company became a full-time operation, while raising two children amid the chaos. Downing is the primary author and designer of over fifty roleplaying titles, including Arrowflight, Grimmworld, Airship Daedalus, and the official Red Dwarf RPG. He continues to write genre fiction for stage, film, comics, audio, and adventure gaming products.Widowed to cancer in 2005, Downing remarried in 2009 and currently enjoys a mostly empty nest in Port Orchard, Washington, with his wife and a rotating roster of rescue cats. Fortunately, he has an office with a door that closes.
