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UnEarthed #2
UnEarthly
The Fearless have triumphed. Astrid and Jodi survive unincarcerated and gainfully employed. Most have forgotten that Jodi was once 'Scar' or what that meant. Life on Mars is in danger of becoming routine. Then noobs arrive, a tunnel collapses, Astrid becomes a walking fossil and everyone discovers the real meaning of life on Mars.
167 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 28, 2012
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Rebecca Bloomer
8 books22 followersI'm an adventure junkie who likes to write. I collect pretty things - baubles, phrases, people - and write them into stories so others can adventure with me.
I have never, to my knowledge, used the word 'boring' (unless it pertained to what small animals were doing to my woodwork) and hope I never will.
I have never, to my knowledge, used the word 'boring' (unless it pertained to what small animals were doing to my woodwork) and hope I never will.
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July 16, 2018
"This is Mars, noob. Science is our god and we’re masters of the universe.”
It is eighteen months after Jodi Scarfield, former hacker into the ruthless Earth government’s programs, and her close friend Astrid Forbes, Mars colony brianiac, had battled to prevent sabotage to the vital dome. We meet them on routine work, introducIng newcomers -noobs – Amos and Akira to Mars. At the same time an emergency call goes out from a mining rover and, unthinkably on Mars, where almost every medical problem can be handled, as Jodi ruefully knows, a man dies.
"There’s some seriously weird snot landing on the old dome. What’s with that?’
What indeed? There follows a tale of political manoeuvring, rising public fears, personal rivalries, dubious experiments and amazing discoveries.
‘You can’t just mutilate someone. You just can’t.’
Due to the work done on her body by the colony's best brains when she nearly died, Jodi can be described as partly bionic. Perhaps that's why she tends to personalise the colony’s robots, annoying Astrid by politely requesting the bots to do tasks instead of treating them as just things. But can anyone personalise, well, snotty stuff, assuming you could even communicate with .. err .. it? When Astrid has a dire accident, she, Jodi, Akira and Amos pool their thoughts to make an amazing discovery. But will it be at terrible cost? As they struggle with this most serious 'close encounter' humanity has ever faced, they realise that someone is intent on disrupting all their efforts.
Unpinning this adventure and the personal stories of Astrid and Jodi lie serious questions about what ‘human being’ even means, and what other forms life might take.
‘If this was life, then she wanted more, much more'.
UnEarthly follows up UnEarthed where Jodi first arrives on Mars and is plunged into intrigue.
It is eighteen months after Jodi Scarfield, former hacker into the ruthless Earth government’s programs, and her close friend Astrid Forbes, Mars colony brianiac, had battled to prevent sabotage to the vital dome. We meet them on routine work, introducIng newcomers -noobs – Amos and Akira to Mars. At the same time an emergency call goes out from a mining rover and, unthinkably on Mars, where almost every medical problem can be handled, as Jodi ruefully knows, a man dies.
"There’s some seriously weird snot landing on the old dome. What’s with that?’
What indeed? There follows a tale of political manoeuvring, rising public fears, personal rivalries, dubious experiments and amazing discoveries.
‘You can’t just mutilate someone. You just can’t.’
Due to the work done on her body by the colony's best brains when she nearly died, Jodi can be described as partly bionic. Perhaps that's why she tends to personalise the colony’s robots, annoying Astrid by politely requesting the bots to do tasks instead of treating them as just things. But can anyone personalise, well, snotty stuff, assuming you could even communicate with .. err .. it? When Astrid has a dire accident, she, Jodi, Akira and Amos pool their thoughts to make an amazing discovery. But will it be at terrible cost? As they struggle with this most serious 'close encounter' humanity has ever faced, they realise that someone is intent on disrupting all their efforts.
Unpinning this adventure and the personal stories of Astrid and Jodi lie serious questions about what ‘human being’ even means, and what other forms life might take.
‘If this was life, then she wanted more, much more'.
UnEarthly follows up UnEarthed where Jodi first arrives on Mars and is plunged into intrigue.
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