They were selected. They were trained. They survived the journey. They set foot on Mars.
Now they must build the first walls, breathe the first recycled air, plant the first seeds, and learn to live where no human being has ever lived before.
But founding a colony does not merely mean surviving.
The Martian city is no longer a mission. It is becoming a new world where everything must be built: fragile, buried beneath red dust, dependent on its greenhouses, its machines, its reactors, and its decisions. Every event, every failure, every conflict reveals a new truth: Mars forgives nothing, but it transforms those who accept that they belong to it.
As David, Stella, and the others learn to live far from Earth, certainties begin to crack. Secrets resurface. Loyalties shift. A society begins to emerge where, at first, there was only a visionary space project.
And, in the distance, something is approaching...
A work of prospective science fiction, this second volume of the I Walked on Mars four-book series continues the story of an adventure that most of us may live to see begin: the founding of the first permanent human colony on Mars.