The Blue Hearts of Mars

By Nicole Grotepas

My name is Retta Heikkinen and I'm in love with an android.

You're thinking I'm a rebel and totally disgusting. Besides being against the rules, blue hearts-androids-are MACHINES. They're not like us on the inside with their blue, blue hearts, which are different from one of those pulsing, living and red hearts that humans have. I'm broadcasting this message because of love-which is the best reason to do anything (isn't it?).

Now is the time.

We need to recognize that the blue hearts are more than just wetware and programming: they're alive. They feel. They have the capacity to love, to dream, and perhaps most dreadful (considering how they've been treated): to be hurt.

If you're reading this message, I need you. If your heart can be changed, let it transform, embrace that transformation, and join the resistance. The world we know hangs in the balance.

Listen: I looked into the eyes of a blue heart and I saw the future-our FUTURES, braided together, inseparable. Not mine alone, but the future of humanity. But there's more than that.

In unraveling the future, I discovered the truth about the past. It's so much more than what you've been told You can't even conceive of it. I'll have to show you for you to believe, because it's more complicated than anything you could imagine. Here's the crazy thing: the past will change the future.

Young adult science fantasy. 91,000 words

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0C87DV4JS
• ISBN13: 9798398825480
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"