Mars Exile: A Hard Science Fiction Novel

By Carl Wang

If you can read this, Mars is yours. Keep it.

Three generations at 0.38g. Hearts that would explode under Earth gravity. Bones that would snap. The colonists of Valles are no longer fully human.

When Founder Eli Navarro is found dead in Airlock 4, atmospheric engineer Kira Rios knows it wasn't suicide. Someone used the 90-second rule-the Martian-born ability to survive near-vacuum-to kill him. And they used her access codes.

The investigation unravels an eighty-year lie. Earth never died. The Founders were not heroes. They were exiles, shipped to Mars as a biological quarantine. Now Earth has returned, demanding "reintegration." Reintegration means cages. It means harvesting Martian blood.

Kira discovers she is more than a colonist. She is XB-12-an engineered asset designed to process the toxins that make Mars deadly. Earth did not come to reclaim a colony. It came to reclaim her.

Mars Exile is a hard science fiction novel of survival, adaptation, and the cost of necessary lies. For readers of The Martian, Children of Time, Project Hail Mary, and The Expanse.

Perfect for fans of rigorous hard SF, closed-system survival stories, and morally complex space colonization.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HD8HGQRJ
• ISBN13: 9798191167862
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"