Tycho
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Ongoing, First published Jul 24, 2015
In the year 2154, sixteen year old Tycho McGrath is an advanced genetics student at the prestigious John Brooke Academy for Math and Science in Tampa, Florida. Life seems fairly dull, until he accidentally discovers that in less than a week, a recently designed bacterium known as the Orion Strain will wipe out every human being on earth. 

In a desperate bid for survival, he flees to the partially-terraformed Moon in an experimental spacecraft, along with 31 other hastily gathered recruits, ranging from a Nobel Prize winner to a part-time drug dealer. But Tycho and the others soon discover that the Moon has its own dangers. Horrific storms, radiation poisoning, and mutant insects all lie in wait, and worst of all, the betrayal of one of their own.
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