Persephone
6 April 2027 · United States
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A Mars-bound, closed-system setting puts scientific constraints in direct contact with thriller suspense.
About the book
On a one-way Mars mission, six astronauts discover a ghost ship that exactly duplicates an earlier mission, drawing the crew into competing scientific explanations and signs of sabotage.
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