Red Planet Blues
by Robert J. Sawyer
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0425256820
- ISBN 13
- 9780425256824
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Synopsis
Incorporating the Hugo & Nebula awardnominated novella Identity Theft” The name’s LomaxAlex Lomax. I’m the one and only private eye working the mean streets of New Klondike, the Martian frontier town that sprang up forty years ago after Simon Weingarten and Denny O’Reilly discovered fossils on the Red Planet. Back on Earth, where anything can be synthesized, the remains of alien life are the most valuable of all collectibles, so shiploads of desperate treasure hunters stampeded here in the Great Martian Fossil Rush. I’m trying to make an honest buck in a dishonest world, tracking down killers and kidnappers among the failed prospectors, the corrupt cops, and a growing population of transfers lucky stiffs who, after striking paleontological gold, upload their minds into immortal android bodies. But when I uncover clues to solving the decades-old murders of Weingarten and O’Reilly, along with a journal that may lead to their legendary mother lode of Martian fossils, God only knows what I’ll dig up...
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- skylarkerbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 024648
- Title
- Red Planet Blues
- Author
- Robert J. Sawyer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Edition
- 1ST
- ISBN 10
- 0425256820
- ISBN 13
- 9780425256824
- Publisher
- Ace
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- Fm
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