Kathleen McFall, insieme al coautore Clark Hays, crea una fiction storica provocatoria che riscrive figure famose e reinventa leggende classiche per il pubblico contemporaneo. Le sue narrazioni esplorano in modo avvincente temi di ingiustizia sociale e disuguaglianza economica, infondendo storie di fuorilegge con un tagliente commento su sistemi truccati. La scrittura di McFall è celebrata per la sua capacità di fondere avventure ad alto rischio e romanticismo autentico con pungenti osservazioni sociali. Il suo lavoro offre ai lettori un viaggio emozionante che risuona profondamente con i paesaggi sociali attuali.
What happens after the plutocrats abandon Earth and colonize Mars as a luxury gated community? A laugh-out-loud detective story set in the 22nd century and a searing critique of the contemporary billionaire quest to reach Mars.
IN THE AGE OF SURVEILLANCE, HOW CAN A PERSON GO MISSING? The year is 2187. Crucial Larsen, a veteran of the brutal Consolidation Wars, is working as a labor cop on Earth. The planet is a toxic dump and billions of people are miserable, but so what? It's none of his business. He's finally living a good life, or good-enough. But then his beloved kid sister, Essential, disappears on Mars, and he's summoned up-universe to aid the investigation. When Crucial demands to know why Halo, the all-powerful artificial-intelligence overseeing Earth and Mars on behalf of the ruling Five Families, can't (or won't) locate his sister, he comes face to face with a life-threatening and apathy-ending realization: Essential is a revolutionary. Blending science-fiction with elements of classic hard-boiled detective stories, Gates of Mars, the first book of The Halo Trilogy, is the eighth novel by Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall.
THE ONLY PERSON LEFT ALIVE WHO CAN SAVE MARS AND EARTH HAS VANISHED. The year is (still) 2188 and Crucial Larsen is officially done with Mars. But just as he's set to head back to his beloved Earth, meteors crash into the orbital platforms, ravage the luxury domes and knock Halo--the powerful AI running Mars and Earth--offline. And this is no random cosmic event. An invading force has the technology to redirect space rocks at will and intends to level the Five Families. Their first act? Put a bounty on missing Staff Scientist Melinda Hopwire, Crucial's ex-lover and the only person left alive who can find the back-up servers to introduce the AI empathy hack, the endgame of the beleaguered Resistance. Crucial has to claw his way across the deadly Choke armed with nothing more than a glue gun, expired maple rum and Sanders, a malfunctioning cybanism, to find Mel and her synthetic perma-kitten Wisp. If he fails, it's the end for both planets. Mars Adrift is the third book in The Halo Trilogy, an irreverent series set on post-colonial Mars, and the tenth novel by Clark Hays and Kathleen McFall.