Revelation
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In 2084, Planet Earth was utterly destroyed by a rogue comet and around 25,000 surviving humans were transported to Capitol Base on Mars. These humans included Ewan and Jill Sinclair. Their son Jack Crossan Sinclair is the first Martian child born on Mars and graduates as a geologist. He leads a project to conduct geological surveys to find extractable mineral resources close to Olympus Mons. However, a powerful and secret pseudo-religious organisation back at Capitol Base makes it their mission to stop Jack, at all costs.
In 2084, Planet Earth was utterly destroyed by a rogue comet and around 25,000 surviving humans were transported to Capitol Base on Mars. These humans included Ewan and Jill Sinclair. Their son Jack Crossan Sinclair is the first Martian child born on Mars and graduates as a geologist. He leads a project to conduct geological surveys to find extractable mineral resources close to Olympus Mons. However, a powerful and secret pseudo-religious organisation back at Capitol Base makes it their mission to stop Jack, at all costs.
I read the first book in this trilogy a couple of years ago and was pleased to be invited to read an advanced review copy of this second volume. It takes up the earlier story in which around 25,000 people from Earth were selected for an evacuation programme to an existing and fairly new Mars colony, to ensure the survival of our species from a predicted cataclysmic collision of Earth and a rogue comet. Now, in 2112, the population on Mars has grown to 40,000 with the help of an accelerated fertilization programme, and some of the key characters from book 1 are heavily involved with this.
The plot centres around the first child born on Mars, now a geologist working on an important project to locate valuable mineral resources. However, a powerful and secret religious group clearly have an agenda to wreck that mission, which is rather reminiscent of a Dan Brown thriller. As in the previous book, this story is focused on the characters and their entwined relationships, rather than a purely science fiction driven plot. The human challenges which arise from a small population in the early stages of colonising Mars held my attention and there were plenty of twists and turns, plus a few red herrings to keep me turning the pages. This is an entertaining read for those who enjoyed book 1 of the trilogy. I received a free review copy of this book and am leaving this review voluntarily.
