Some nights are warm, some are stormy and freezing like the ones near the equator where Sigismund Thorpe worked in observation station Charlie. It was nearing midnight and he was immersed in front of shifting terminal displays while the servers gushed data results from the unusually high volume of comm traffic pouring now from deep space.
It had been this way for two straight weeks, he and his staff we're almost unable to eat meals, or even wash themselves due to the torrental influx of raw data being gobbled up by the station receivers. It was definitely more than peak season, often coming up during the second quarter of the year, when Earth system was at apogee relative to Mars-Jovian system and the atmosphere dense enough to reflect a great quantity of interplanetary signals down to earth's surface.
A DEEP red haze hung in the distant horizon as Thorpe worked on his comm system , .Desperaately trying to reestablish digi link to Socrates.
It had beer
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MARS : The Resurrection
SFset in the future decades, this is a narration of a dark yet hopeful era for mankind that is struggling to rise from the ashes of an accidental nuclear war due to misunderstanding between leading nations. While wholesale slaughter raged on Earth...
