New Addition to The Silent Gene Series

- Yes, there is a new book. Finally, after six years, after several health struggles, I've managed to write the next volume in The Silent Gene series - For The Love of Mars. The title (yes, it's a pun, sorry ;)) reveals a great deal abo

ut the book. The lengths my characters will go to for the love of Mars, their promised land. And also the frustrations, from being hunted on Earth to the terraforming challenges on Mars, such as Marsquakes, erupting volcanoes, exploding aquifers, and CO2 bursts on the planet's surface. Perhaps my own frustration was incorporated too.

This book delves into the climate crisis my main character exacerbated, the conflict between the two groups of humans, and introduces another genetic engineering feat that I hope will intrigue you.

As you may notice, my catch phrase is a little tongue in cheek. Mars resembles Earth in many ways, except it's dead and red. I said this to my daughter as we were discussing the cover design, comparing Earth to Mars. We had a chuckle, so in it went. However, in this book, Mars is changing, undergoing upheaval due to terraforming efforts. Hence this line in the blurb:

But terraformed Mars is greening up. And life exists on the surface, below ground, and in a mysterious Robot Graveyard. Of course the graveyard has nothing to do with terraforming ;)

One of the things my content editor mentioned was that Lucas, the supreme villain from the first book, is showing some surprising contradictions, and she'd like to learn more. I have done my best to develop well-rounded characters - no cardboard cutouts here. I've also included some history, rather than simply evolutionary data, to better understand these people who are linked to the mummies in the first book. But the main point of the book is the advanced genetic engineering they engaged in. You will hopefully be intrigued by the possibilities. And yes, I did my research again. And no, to those of you who were confused by the amount of detail in the first book, it's not a science textbook. I have contracted the science in this one so there will be no confusion. This is a work of fiction, but it also has a hard science base. I can't do it any other way. I love both science and fiction. (And Mars.) And if there isn't a solid science base, how can these astounding possibilities exist? Then the book would simply be fantasy. And it can't be. No dragons.