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Flying with the enemy

Chapter 2

**New Mexico, 18 months before launch** There were no surprises in Major Eric Alain’s life. His career path, his time at Saint-Cyr, and now his application to the Green Mars Corp program were all part of a carefully laid out plan. When he got his recruiting email for Hermes pilo...

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Leaving on a jet plane

Chapter 4

Sam Hayden couldn’t believe his luck. He was sitting on his comfortable couch next to his stunningly beautiful girlfriend, in an awesome apartment in Los Angeles, he had a cool, well-paying job and to cap it all, he’d been selected as the youngest member of the most prestigious s...

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Prayer and Reflection

Chapter 21

Hans Hermann was irritated. The waiting was annoying sure, the shift work, exhausting, but the thing that irritated him was the fact that they were doing it in the first place. The others had been euphoric about the North Pole, but most of them wouldn’t even see it! It seemed so…...

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The Drive

Chapter 24

Colby Smith woke with a start. The rover’s pitching and rolling had been compared to being on a ship in a storm, and she was starting to understand why. The narrow bunk was uncomfortable, and she sighed, realizing she wasn’t going back to sleep. Light was pouring through the wind...

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Power

Chapter 44

Tara Dayton smiled wolfishly. She loved power. She loved holding people in her influence. She loved the sensation that having someone totally in her power gave her. That look in their eyes she’d see, and she would know they’d do anything she wanted for her. That they were hers no...

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Discovery

Chapter 55

Raynor Schwartz heard the rumble of the landing rocket outside the habitat but paid little attention to it besides that. He was crouching next to some pumpkin plants under the sheer light of the glow bulbs hanging above him. “I swear the lights are the only thing that keeps me w...

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: A Dish Served Hot

Chapter 67

Colby Smith was drunk. The second day at Red Rock had been illuminating. She had been led about by a tall Black man named George who was the head of the science team. The Red Rock personnel were eager to show off their station and their mining sites, and Smith wished they’d broug...

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Debrief'ed

Chapter 69

Flight systems were hardly Pamala Sheldon’s primary role. In fact, she didn’t know a damn thing about them, yet she paid close attention to every word Li said as she described the flight. “It was something with the programming, I’m positive of that,” she explained, “the fact the...

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