The Zeus Project achieved its first manned flight to Mars in 1999, its ambition set on colonisation. On the red planet, Ylla envisioned the arrival of future astronauts and her husband, Mr. K, while he plotted their demise. A subsequent …

The colonization of Mars advanced with swift momentum, rockets arriving like silver locusts. Settlers poured onto the new world, each driven by a singular dream: Father Peregrine sought a glimpse of Christ, the Lustigs a reunion with their …

Earth was an amber cinder, all life extinguished by the finality of nuclear war. A scattering of colonists remained on Mars, the sole inheritors of a lost humanity, staring into a bleak future where even connection was a luxury. Wilder fina…