Green on Red
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Cam Pearson has always been a wanderer. Shuffled incessantly around through his youth, he views it as just another stage in his chaotic life when he takes an off-planet job with Mars Incorporated. Assigned to Project Earth, the literally atmospheric effort to make the red planet inhabitable for Earthly life, he finds friendship, adventure, and a new chance for life. But all is not well on the fourth planet from the sun. There are other forces here, forces that will spare no blood for their purpose. When chance uncovers a deadly secret, Cam will find himself fighting to protect the world he works to create.
This story is very old, somewhat embarrassing, and unlikely to be updated on any time frame faster than the actual terraforming of Mars
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