Colony Mars is a series of books by Gerald M Kilby, currently five in number. They are described as “fast-paced sci-fi adventures”, tending towards the harder end of the spectrum but veering towards applied phlebotinum as the plot demands
Tropes:
- Casual Interplanetary Travel: A “space drive” of indeterminate type is used to cut the travel time from Earth to Mars to about two months, instead of six-plus.
- Colonized Solar System: The Moon is also colonised, and asteroid mining is just getting under way.
- Shout-Out: Mia is told “it is time to leave the capsule, if you dare” at one point.
- Space Western: “On Mars, there is no law but your own” leads to fairly free gunplay with energy weapons at times.
