Mars Calling
Description
A young, married couple with no skills and trouble making ends meet on overcrowded Earth takes up an offer to travel to Mars and work there, Luis Bellandia in the mines, and Jo Anne as a cleaning woman and kitchen helper. Two months out from Earth, on their six-month journey to the Red Planet, a meteorite shower shreds the space mirror that warms the north polar ice cap that supplies the mining colony with most of its water, now no longer possible. Arriving on Mars, Luis and Jo Anne find the dome's park plants and victory gardens, dead from the now strictly rationed water, supplied by a few inadequate aquifers and ice shipped from both poles to keep the colony going.
Jo Anne, a plant lover and avid gardener, finds that she cannot tolerate the desolation after several months on the dead planet and becomes severely depressed. She decides to return home on the next available ship, thus voiding her contract and forfeiting the promised $200,000 when she completes her three-year contract. Wanting to stay, Luis becomes angry, the couple becomes estranged and no longer communicate with each other. However, several days before Jo Anne is scheduled to leave, an anomaly occurs on the Red Planet that forever changes the future of Luis and Jo Anne, Mars and all of mankind.
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About the Author
Gary Carter was born in San Diego, California n 1938 and graduated from Sweetwater High School In National City in June of 1956. After serving three years in the United States Marine Corps, he attended college as a science major at Grossmont Community College, continuing his education at San Diego State University as a botany major. His poems have appeared in the Port Orford News, as well as the Las Vegas Sun and many poetry journals and magazines. He is the author of "Jump Start", an apocalyptic science fiction thriller concerning the origin of dragons (2003), "For the Good of the Many", a National Award Winning military/political thriller (2007), "Mystic Summer", a multi-cultural love story set in San Diego in 1954, "The Cedars of Lebanon" a science fiction, time travel adventure back to 600 BC to try and save a dying world (2018), "The Beginner's Guide to Growing Herbs and their Culinary, Medicinal and Mystical Properties", an Amazon Best Seller( 2019), and three books of poetry: "My City by the Sea" - poems for all ages (2006) with several award winners in it, "Imagery" - Poems to make you laugh, cry, wonder, doubt and argue about (2013), and "Songs from the Southern Oregon Coast", a compilation of short stories and poems, by 56 authors, telling what they love about living along the southern Oregon coast, one of our world's most beautiful places (2018). A retired nursery owner, Gary now spends most of his time writing, visiting with family and friends, and orchestrating author and poet's gatherings.
