Outcry : Defenders of Mars

During a field trip to Mount Olympus, Belle Song accidentally injures her leg on a strange rock. The rock turns out to be a rare and valuable mineral that can make space travel much more efficient. The planet's biggest mining company, BAMCorp, wants to claim the site for itself. But mining the mineral could threaten much of Mars' all-important water supply. Things soon get tense when protestors begin to clash with company officials. Belle and her classmates want to help defend Mars' water too. But they soon learn that the issue is more complex than they realized. Will a solution be reached that can prove helpful to everyone? This all-new Redworld tale will capture sci-fi lovers' imaginations and keep them turning the page to follow Belle's latest adventure on the red planet.

A.L. Collins learned a lot about writing from her teachers at Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. She has always loved reading science fiction stories about other worlds and strange aliens. She enjoys creating and writing about new worlds, as well as envisioning what the future might look like. Since writing Redworld, she has collected a map of Mars that hangs in her living room and a rotating model of the red planet, which sits on her desk. When not writing, Collins enjoys spending her spare time reading and playing board games with her family. She lives near Seattle, Washington with her husband and five dogs.

Tomislav Tikulin was born in Zagreb, Croatia. Tikulin has extensive experience creating digital artwork for book covers, posters, DVD jackets, and production design illustrations. Tomislav especially enjoys illustrating tales of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, which he does for a wide range of publishers including Solaris Books, PS Publishing, Subterranean Press, Cemetery Dance Publications, and several others. His illustrations have also appeared in several magazines including Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov's Science Fiction, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Analog Science Fiction & Fact. Tomislav is proud to say that his artwork has graced the covers of many sci-fi and fantasy books including Larry Niven's The Ringworld Engineers, Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous With Rama, and Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine (50th anniversary edition).