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A conversation with two-time Prometheus Award-winning author Travis J. I. Corcoran about his new science fiction novel, Red State Mars
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About Red State Mars
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, city shields collapse and the red Martian soil melts and flows like blood as the Martian plains are seared with plasma 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, volatile, but fierce enough to strike back. Freightliners become fortresses. Drones become weapons. Family honor hardens into resistance.
From isolated domes to the vast Martian plains to the black sky above, war sparks into revolution and a desperate struggle to forge a nation on an alien world men now call home.
A vast chronicle of clans and civilizations, of families too proud to yield, too divided to trust, and too determined to be ruled.
Praise for Red State Mars
“Tough-as-nails pioneer families and a great sci-fi war story wrapped up in a huge epic of Mars’s fight for freedom. Loved it.”—Larry Correia, New York Times best-selling author of American Paladin
“Just plain cool.”—Kurt Schlichter, author of People’s Republic
“What you’d get if you cross-pollinated David Drake and Neal Stephenson, but Corcoran has tapped into a vein entirely his own—part hard science, part political saga, and all high-octane imagination.”—Rob Kroese, author of Mercury Falls
About Travis J. I. Corcoran
Travis Corcoran was born in the old America That Was. He was raised on a steady diet of battered Heinlein paperbacks, D&D and Gamma World, 10-speed Schwinn bicycles, Apple II computers, Ronald Regan speeches, and $1 matinees of 1980s movies.
As an adult, he’s been raided by the Joint Terrorism Task Force for spicy tweets, written two science fiction novels that have won the Prometheus Award for outstanding libertarian fiction, taken up farming, and been elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives, where he’s earned an A+ rating for opposing taxes and gun control.