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In the parallel world first introduced in S. M. Stirling’s The Sky People, aliens terraformed Mars (and Venus) 2 hundred million years ago, seeding them with life-forms from Earth. Humans didn’t suspect this until the twentieth century, however when the first probes landed on our sister worlds, and found life—intelligent life, at that—things changed with a vengeance. By the year 2000, America, Russia, and the other great powers of Earth are contending for influence and power amid the newly-discovered inhabitants of the sister planets.
Venus is a primitive world. But on Mars, early hominids evolved civilization earlier than their earthly cousins, driven by the needs of any harsh world growing still harsher as the initial terraforming runs down. Without coal, oil, or uranium, their technology was forced into different paths, and the genetic wizardry of the Crimson Dynasty united a global for more than twenty thousand years.
Now, in a fresh stand-alone adventure occur this world’s 2000 AD, Jeremy Wainman can be an archaeologist who have achieved a lifelong dream; to go to Mars and explore the inactive cities of the Deep Beyond, looking for the secrets of the Kings Beneath the Mountain and the dropped empire they ruled.
Teyud Zha-Zhalt is the Martian mercenary the Terrans hire as guide and captain of the landship Intrepid Traveller. A hidden knowledge links her to the deadly intrigues of Dvor il-Adazar, the City That Is A Mountain, where the last aging descendant of the Tollamune Emperors clings to the remnants of his power…and secrets which could trace their origin to the enigmatic Ancients, the Lords of Creation who reshaped the Solar System in enough time of the dinosaurs.
When these three meet, the foundations of reality will be shaken—from the lost city of Rema-Dza to the courts of the Crimson Kings.
Venus is a primitive world. But on Mars, early hominids evolved civilization earlier than their earthly cousins, driven by the needs of any harsh world growing still harsher as the initial terraforming runs down. Without coal, oil, or uranium, their technology was forced into different paths, and the genetic wizardry of the Crimson Dynasty united a global for more than twenty thousand years.
Now, in a fresh stand-alone adventure occur this world’s 2000 AD, Jeremy Wainman can be an archaeologist who have achieved a lifelong dream; to go to Mars and explore the inactive cities of the Deep Beyond, looking for the secrets of the Kings Beneath the Mountain and the dropped empire they ruled.
Teyud Zha-Zhalt is the Martian mercenary the Terrans hire as guide and captain of the landship Intrepid Traveller. A hidden knowledge links her to the deadly intrigues of Dvor il-Adazar, the City That Is A Mountain, where the last aging descendant of the Tollamune Emperors clings to the remnants of his power…and secrets which could trace their origin to the enigmatic Ancients, the Lords of Creation who reshaped the Solar System in enough time of the dinosaurs.
When these three meet, the foundations of reality will be shaken—from the lost city of Rema-Dza to the courts of the Crimson Kings.
