This collection of short fiction is an imagining of the impact - personal, interpersonal, psychological and existential - of our forthcoming colonisation of Mars. It interweaves threads of the isolation, loss and alienation of living on inhospitable Mars, with a nascent love of its cold, harsh beauty, as humanity truly becomes a bi-planetary species.

Is Buttrose actually a Martian? These stories are so deeply imagined he may as well have lived there. All the grit, and a little of the grandeur of the human lust for exploration is in these pages. - Geraldine Brooks, author and Pulitzer Prize winner

If, like me, you'd refuse to leave the Earth, Larry Buttrose will take you on a cosmic adventure instead. And there are so many surprises - Mars is not what you imagine. Take CARE! - Robyn Williams, The Science Show, ABC.