Semper Mars
Synopsis
The Year is 2040.The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves.Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startling evidence of an alternative history that threatens to split humanity into opposing factions and plunge the Earth into chaos and war. The USMC -- a branch of a military considered, until just recently, to be obsolete -- has dispatched the Marine Mars Expeditionary Force, a thirty-man weapons platoon, to the Red Planet to protect American civilians and interest with lethal force if necessary.Because great powers are willing to devastate a world in order to keep an ancient secret buried. Because something that was hidden in the Martian dust for half a million years has just been unearthed . . . something that calls into question every belief that forms the delicate foundation of civilization . . .Something inexplicably human.
- Copyright:
- 1998 HarperCollins
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- ISBN-13:
- 9780061751448
- Publisher:
- HarperCollins
- Date of Addition:
- 2015-02-20T08:17:54Z
- Language:
- English
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- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.