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Red Planet Blues

Robert J Sawyer

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English
Gollancz
10 June 2014
Robert J. Sawyer, the author of such 'revelatory and thought-provoking' novels as Triggers and The WWW Trilogy, presents a noir mystery expanded from his Hugo and Nebula Award-nominated novella IDENTITY THEFT and his Aurora Award-winning short story 'Biding Time', set on a lawless Mars in a future where everything is cheap, and life is even cheaper...

Alex Lomax is the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up 40 years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O'Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded to Mars in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.

Trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, Lomax tracks down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, corrupt cops, and a growing population of transfers - lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when he uncovers clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O'Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what he'll dig up...

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Imprint:   Gollancz
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 133mm,  Width: 200mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   252g
ISBN:   9781473200081
ISBN 10:   1473200083
Pages:   368
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Author Website:   www.sfwriter.com

Robert J. Sawyer has been described as Canada's answer to Michael Crichton. Critically acclaimed in the US he is regarded as one of SF's most significant writers and his novels are regularly voted as fans' favourites. He lives in Canada.

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