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An obscure research cellular physiologist develops a "miracle enzyme" that allows carbon dioxide/oxygen conversion en vivo, within the cell tissue – a radical innovation opening the hostile Martian environment to human colonization.
Decades later, former intel agent and alpinist Jesperso, and his partner, Barnes, a black ex-football coach and convicted felon, are among the "Marsrats" (Mars-rationalized, CO2-breathing humans) living within the pressurized, roofed crater of Burroughs Colony, south of the immense shield volcano and its vast aqueduct system -- the enclave's sole source of potable water. Earthly economic problems cause the giant conglomerate, Vonex Corporation, to officially "hand over" the absentee governance of Burroughs to the UN.
When an earthquake damages the planet's water pipeline, Jesperson and Barnes must trek to the top of Olympus Mons to make repairs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Walling, a lifelong Californian, is a former aerospace engineer (Lockheed Missiles & Space Company). He was employed during the Desert Storm conflict by a Menlo Park producer of Flight Motion Simulators, and most recently as technical journalist for a supplier of Global Positioning Systems. Bill and Judy live in the heart of Silicon Valley, and have three daughters, and one grandson. Bill has published three novels which are no longer in print, plus science articles and numerous magazine novelettes and short stories, all of the latter in the speculative fiction genre. He has only recently returned to writing fiction. His hobbies are films, music and astronomy.
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