Red Planet Blues
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ISBN: 0425256413 / Publisher: Ace, March 2014
Working in New Klondike in the Martian frontier, Alex Lomax discovers clues to who murdered the men that first discovered life on Mars decades earlier, and puts himself in mortal danger after also uncovering a treasure trove of rare Martian fossils.
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Incorporating the Hugo & Nebula award–nominated novella “Identity Theft”The name’s Lomax—Alex Lomax. I’m the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty 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 here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush.I’m trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, tracking down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, the corrupt cops, and a growing population oftransfers—lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when I uncover 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 I’ll dig up...
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