Jonathan Ball Publishers and The Book Lounge invite you to the launch of The First Murder on Mars by Sam Wilson!

45 years after the future ends, Dylan Ward has a job: Travel the outer fringes of Mars and track down a missing census taker. It’s a journey that will take her far beyond the world she knows. Back to the Collapse. Back to the First Murder.

‘A fiercely intelligent, wholly engaging thrill-ride of a novel that sucks you in like a black hole.’ – Sarah Lotz (author of The Three)

‘Fast and sharp and very of-our-time.’ – Lauren Beukes (author of The Shining Girls)

‘A wild rover ride across the red planet which is somehow both exhilarating and deeply thoughtful about how societies are built, captured and liberated. It’s meticulously researched, vividly imagined and moves faster than a spaceship. I bloody adored this book.’ – Sam Beckbessinger (co-author of Girls of Little Hope)

Wilson will be in conversation with author and illustrator Alex Latimer at the event.

Event details

Date: Wednesday 9 October 2024
Time: 17:30 for 18:00
Venue: The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland Street, Cnr Buitenkant & Roeland Street, Cape Town
RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com or 021 462 2425

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About the book

MARS, 2034
A place of hope, freedom, and the dream of a better future on their new home.

The year of the first human born on the red planet.

MARS, 2103
A place of division, suspicion and fear.

The year when the truth will come about.

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This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller, who saw a better future than the one that came to pass.

And Dylan Ward, a woman raised in the vast wilderness of the frontier, who will find her way back to it.

It’s a story about a man who went missing, and the man who wants to find out what he knew.

It’s a story about what makes us human – and how we might live once we leave our home.

The story of the first murder on Mars.

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