Natasha Pulley

'Pure Pulley' STUART TURTON 'Joyful and profound' CATRIONA WARD 'Simply unputdownable' THOMAS D. LEE January Stirling was one of the principal dancers of London's Royal Ballet. Now he's a climate refugee bound for Tharsis, the notorious terraformed colony on Mars. It's a utopia for the naturalised population. For January, as a dangerous Earthstronger whose body is unadjusted to the weaker Martian gravity, it's a life sentence to hard labour and ferocious discrimination. But he will live. Aubrey Gale, energy trillionaire and hereditary senator, is running for election on a hardline platform to protect the native population from dangerous immigrants. The path to equality is simple, requiring all Earthstrongers who choose to come to Mars to undergo the disabling and sometimes fatal process of surgical naturalisation. Which is no life at all. When a disastrous media encounter plunges Aubrey and January's lives into chaos, the solution is a five-year made-for-reality-TV marriage that could secure January's future and ensure Aubrey's political success . . . but it soon becomes clear that thousands of lives hang in the balance, and nothing is as it seems. Timely and utterly unputdownable, The Mars House is an exceptional genre-blending story about privilege, strength, life, and love across class divisions - perfect for fans of Babel by R.F. Kuang, The Ferryman by Justin Cronin, and This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

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The Mars House

Katheryn

"Ariel was beginning to conclude that an important part of understanding the human experience was understanding the total human servitude to cats."

Gale thought that people who were too lazy to read subtitles should be disposed of and made into nutritious mulch for crops

Gale's little comebacks and wit are so enjoyable

"It is a very difficult and unfortunate thing to have been through of course, but we believe Lucy Collins was a lone wolf"

"You believe that in a similar way to believing in the tooth fairy and rover spirits?" Gale said, gleaming

Gale fixed them with the serene stare they gave people when they were gauging exactly how much sausage meat it would be possible to make with the available human.

Stop shaming them for being clever. They're running for Consul, not Prom Queen. If I've got a choice between a relatable donkey and a stratospheric genius, I want the bloody genius, thank you. 

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