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![]() ![]() It's not just your basic level of last minute panic wrong, but a much larger, more threatening wrongness. ![]() The first half of the book covers these last few hours, and it is basically my own personal travel anxiety dream taken to a whole new level of anxious, because the clock is ticking.and if the kids and their parents don't make it onto the colony ship, they die. Their parents are desperately working to finish the terraforming project that will make their new planet habitable, but they have only a few hours left before the colony ship must leave. Liam and his friend Phoebe are supposed to be on the last ship leaving Mars. Humanity has been forced to leave Earth, settling on Mars, but with Mars about to be engulfed by the sun, colony ships have set off for a new solar system. A hundred and fiftyish years in the future, our sun is going supernova, long before it should be. Last Day on Mars, by Kevin Emerson (Walden Pond Press, February 14, 2017), is the most gripping middle grade science fiction book I've read in ages. ![]()
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