Red State Mars - Hardcover

Corcoran, Travis J. I.

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798991641555

Publisher: Ark Press, 2026

Synopsis

A sweeping epic of Mars’s fight for freedom—an unforgettable saga of war, family, and civilization on the red frontier.

For generations, the Newcastles, Mackenzies, Atkinses, Hyltons, and Hollinses have endured the hard red soil of Mars—surviving by individual grit, intense family loyalty, and free-market trade. Scarred by World War III and Earth’s long, violent aftermath, they built farms, raised domes, forged alliances, and carried old grudges to a new world. Together, the Martians have forged a frontier society that is complex, ornery, and rooted in the freedom of the Texas soil from which many of the clans sprang.

Trade with the nearby Chinese enclaves brought prosperity for a time. But as Beijing’s reach lengthens, trade becomes tribute—and tribute becomes force. When Chinese armored columns grind across Karl’s Ramp and convoys are torn apart in the Chaos, Mars is plunged into war. Robinson City’s dome falls in fire and blood. The Burrows holds out under siege until supply convoys break through beneath burning skies. At Lowell and Meltwater, shields collapse, the ground turns molten, and the plains are seared by energy fire.

The clans face an empire pressing down from above and rivalries tearing them apart from within. Senators brawl in council halls, mobs surge through the streets, and old feuds erupt—even on the football field. Out of devastation, a fragile coalition is born: uneasy and volatile, but fierce enough to strike back. Freightliners become fortresses.

Drones become weapons. Family honor hardens into resistance. From isolated domes to the vastness of Martian plains and interplanetary space, war sparks into revolution as the struggle for hearth and home becomes a desperate attempt to form a new nation on an alien world.

A vast chronicle of clans and civilizations, of families too proud to yield, too divided to trust, and too determined to be ruled.

About this title

About the Author

Travis J.I. Corcoran’s debut novel, The Powers of the Earth, and its follow-up, Causes of Separation, won the Prometheus Award for best novel two years running. Corcoran is also the author of Red State Mars for Ark Press. He’s since published many other science fiction novels, and is also the author of hugely popular homesteading manual Escape the City. Corcoran resides with his wife and dogs on a 56-acre farm in New Hampshire, where he writes code, raises goats and pigs, and tinkers with cantankerous machinery, while also serving as a Republican member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ark Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798991641555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 624