Last Day on Mars (Chronicle of the Dark Star Book 1)

He activated his own thruster pack and accelerated toward Base 1. His heart was now as cold and calm as the empty space around him. He knew that the death of the three key aerospace figures did not guarantee that the non-media radiation drive would become the mainstream of spacecraft research, but he had done all he could. No matter what happened n

“This is impossible!” Akira Inoue repeated. Zhang Beihai turned around and, without so much as looking at the two vice-captains, stared straight at Dongfang Yanxu. His eyes instantly reminded her of the emblem of the Chinese Space Force, bearing swords and stars alike. “Dongfang, I said that I would be sorry if I had to kill you. There’s not much t

“It was a fleet of tiny, specialized bombs designed to erase every speck of life. That way, when humans arrived, they wouldn’t be killed by some toxic plant or bacteria or dinosaur or, you know, a civilization of sentient beings who already had their own planet.”