by Christie Meierz | Jul 25, 2024 | Review
Like private schools back on Earth, the Crater School is primarily the preserve of the upper and middle classes. But the hinterlands of Mars are very rural. Farming the Red Planet is hard, and families rely on their children to help with the work. What, then, is a...
by Christie Meierz | Jul 15, 2024 | Review
Christmas is coming to the Crater School, so the girls must celebrate. So says the Earth calendar. But Mars does not respect school rules. Nor does the Red Planet have much respect for Earth weather. Why bother with a white Christmas when Martian weather can be far...
by Christie Meierz | Jul 1, 2024 | Review
On a world where cake is a necessity, it takes the Grid to protect the civilized and the deaf from the dire influences of the ambient and to keep the chaotic Haosa at bay. Having arrived at recently Dust-bound Colemeno, Trader Padi yos’Galan is essential to...
by Christie Meierz | Jun 23, 2024 | Review
Mars, the Red Planet, farthest flung outpost of the British Empire. Under the benevolent reign of the Empress Eternal, commerce and culture are flourishing along the banks of the great canals, and around the shores of the crater lakes. But this brave new world is not...
by Christie Meierz | Nov 20, 2022 | Writing
My first few covers were largely put together from stock images; it was only with Farryn’s War that we found a good style that marries space opera and romance. So here is Tom Peters’ new cover for The Fall. I think you’ll agree it’s...
