I Walked on Mars — Book 3
Years have passed since the first sols of Arcadia. The early base has become a city. The greenhouses have spread, the tunnels have multiplied, the children of Mars have grown up beneath the domes, and the machines now build faster than men can decide.
4,500 kilometers from Arcadia, a second human colony appears: Kunlun. Chinese, isolated, fragile, watched from afar by capitals that still reason in borders, flags and balances of power. Very quickly, what should have been an encounter becomes a crisis. When the orders from Earth collide with Martian reality, David, Stella, Hawkins and the others understand that surviving is no longer enough. A choice must be made. To obey, at the risk of condemning human beings. To disobey, at the risk of breaking with those who still claim to command from millions of kilometers away. On Mars, the air knows no nationalities. The dust respects no order. And a city that learns to say no ceases to be a mere colony.
They are coming. And with them, Earth returns to knock at the doors of Mars, a reminder that one cannot play outside the rules without paying the price.
Book 3 of a quadrilogy.